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Man and Beast 16: Diverging Further. Systematic naming of more complex divergent pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Wed, May 9, 2012 03:31 PM UTC:
There are almost 200 suffixes now, and only a quarter predate Gilman's mock-ups or make-ups. Continuing to work upward and downward from the center of the index, Leftblinker as a suffix denotes restricted directions for capture and non-capture move. It is closely associated with Rightblinker farther down the alphabet. -Lb means non-capture southeast and northwest, capture the reverse; and Rightblinker ia used for the altogether opposite case of those two possibilities. Fortunately they are strictly Square geometry. Well sort of, since this Man & Beasts 16 analogizes pawn of Mark Thompson's Tetrahedral too as relevant. Given is example of the Bishop on square/rectangle restricted by Left- or Rightblinker, and they would carry a drop of about 0.5 in value.