H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Jun 8, 2023 10:30 AM EDT:
If the Archer had been FA, its move diagram would have shown just the curverd arrows in the A squares.But instead it shows this arrow together with a red X. That leads me to think something else must be meant, but it is not obvious to me what. Since X is often used for capture, it might mean capture only (cA). But this seems at odds with the verbal description that it "moves 1 or 2 squares diagonally".
"Every other square" does mean "one, and then one not, repetitively". But I think it would be clearer to say "slides an even number of steps orthogonally". I think the term 'slides' already implies that all squares between the origin and destination have to be empty, but to press the point this can be explicitly added. (So the move is a lame Dababba rider, nDD, rather than a normal one).
I always use the term 'empty' as the opposit of 'occupied', rather than 'open' or 'free'.
If the Archer had been FA, its move diagram would have shown just the curverd arrows in the A squares.But instead it shows this arrow together with a red X. That leads me to think something else must be meant, but it is not obvious to me what. Since X is often used for capture, it might mean capture only (cA). But this seems at odds with the verbal description that it "moves 1 or 2 squares diagonally".
"Every other square" does mean "one, and then one not, repetitively". But I think it would be clearer to say "slides an even number of steps orthogonally". I think the term 'slides' already implies that all squares between the origin and destination have to be empty, but to press the point this can be explicitly added. (So the move is a lame Dababba rider, nDD, rather than a normal one).
I always use the term 'empty' as the opposit of 'occupied', rather than 'open' or 'free'.