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The Heavy Brigade. Naming of leaping pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 05:11 PM UTC:
'Wizard' of Omega Chess is the (Camel+Ferz=CAMERZ,for one coinage)and goes logically for design with yet unnamed(TREBUCHET+Knight). In Encyclopaedia Chess Variants (1994) p. 227 under 'Pieces', the seven-by-seven schematic leaves only (0,3) and (3,3) squares unnamed. For (0,3) not strictly never named (since 1877 US Patent 186181 calls it Cavalry) Trebuchet is fittingly military to go with more recent use of Large Tank in 1994 USP 5484157.