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csipgs Chess. Design and buy new chess pieces during play. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Matthew Paul wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2004 12:25 AM UTC:

I'm not sure what you mean.

The piece I was thinking of had Dabbabah movement (1.5 z), as well as
sideways rook movement (5.0 x 0.5 = 2.5z).  This gives a value of 4 if I
read the rules correctly.  This is similar to the example of the
forward-only rook having a price 2.5 and being given a ferz move so as to
not waste half a zorkmid.

My question was concerning the fact that the rook-sideways + dabbabah
could only reach every 2nd rank, and therefore only half the squares, but
would not be colourbound.