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Ajax Chess. All pieces have can play one square in any direction, the Mastodon leaper complements the Knight. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jose Carrillo wrote on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 05:52 PM UTC:

Thanks Antoine.

Sorry to bother you again, can you please add my new Ajax Falcons too?

They have the combined movement of a Korean Elephant, Korean (or Chinese) Knight and Wazir, plus the characteristic Ajax one 'non-capturing' step in the remaining diagonal directions.

Ajax Falcons are improved Korean Elephants, which move one orthogonal step plus 2 diagonal steps. All squares in the path of the Korean Elephant must be unoccupied for the Elephant to reach it's destination.

The Ajax Falcon is not a leaper, so just like the Korean Elephant must also have the path clear to reach the 2nd diagonal square (labeled 3 on the diagram), but the Ajax Falcon can also move and capture at any square along the path to their 3rd square.

Therefore the Ajax Falcon can stop at their 1st diagonal square (labeled 2 on the diagram), provided the first orthogonal step is empty; giving the Ajax Falcon the Korean Knight move capability.

The Falcon can also just move and capture on it's first orthogonal square (labeled 1 on the diagram) in the path of it's Korean Elephant move, just like a Wazir.

Finally the Ajax Falcon has a one 'non-capturing' step in the remaining diagonal directions (red circles in the diagram), like a Ferz, to complete the one-step movement characteristic of the Ajax pieces.

Thanks.