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Onslaught. Several pieces can capture only on the enemy half, favoring attack. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jan 26 04:52 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 03:34 PM:

I wanted to avoid hoppers, because these cause completely new tactical patterns alien to Chess players. I also have an aversion against riders on large boards, because it is not intuitively obvious whether an in-between piece blocks them or not. You really have to count it out all the time.

But lame riders are already better. A lame Slip Queen is about as strong as the Dragon Horse (according to the Diagram). A Crooked Bishop was too strong. It could even be weakened by making it a compound of a lame Skip Bishop and lame Slip Rook (or the other way around; then it would be color bound.) The only thing against it is that it is rather unusual.

Perhaps a divergent mQcN would appeal more to Chess players.