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The huygens chess piece (submitting to be catalogued in the Piececlopedia)[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

V. Reinhart wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2017 09:35 PM UTC:

Oh, thanks Ben. I see the main heading for piece articles now. I also found this which appears to be a separate "archive" of some pieces (not sure):

http://www.chessvariants.com/d.betza/chessvar/pieces/index.html

Fergus, let me know what I should so next. The front page of CVP has a link "How you can help - Submitting content" I'm trying to follow the instructions the best I can. I hope the Huygens can be cataloged soon. One of the images originated from your work, and maybe soon it will be in a YouTube video about Infinte Chess with the Huygens"!

Name: Huygens

History: Named after Christiaan Huygens, a prominent Dutch mathematician and astonomer. Chess piece invented by vickalan, and was first used in mid-2016.

Movement: The huygens jumps prime numbers of squares in orthogonal directions (so jumps 2, 3, 5, 7, 11,...squares). It is sometimes played with a different minimum jump distance, so that it is not a close-attacking piece.

Note: One graphic of the huygens was designed by Fergus Duniho, and was originally specified as a king-bishop (from the Abstract Piece Set). It is also used as the huygens, such as in Trappist-1.

Thank you for considering this piece for CVP's Piececlopedia.

Best regards,