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I am in doubt now whether the Ancaa wouldn't be a better Queen replacement than BDD. The later is color bound, so I added an color-changing non-capture to it to make sure it still would have mating potential with either of the other two color-bound pieces. But an Ancaa is a color alternator, and would not need such a trick. Which makes it look a much cleaner piece. The only argument against it would be that it looks too much like the piece I had in mind as Rook replacement, the WN. Although the latter jumps to the N squares, while the Ancaa can be blocked on F squares. So I was also looking for an alternative for the WN. One possibility for a strong piece without mating potential is the Gnu (NC). But it is a 16-mover, which would make it significantly stronger than a Rook, while the forward 3-leaps are also not recommended. So I might make it a sort of sliding Gnu, which can reach the C squares only via the N squares (but still jumps directly to the N squares). This is not too much stronger than a Rook, and it takes the sting out of the forward C moves.
I intend to put a new Chess variant on Fairy-Max to highlight its new feature that it now can perform checkmates that need to take place in a specific corner (like Bishop + Knight). Before it always got stuck on those in the wrong corner. So I wanted a variant with many different 3-vs-1 checkmates. (In ortho-Chess there are only two, B+B and B+N.) To this end, none of the pieces will have mating potential on its own. And several pieces will be color bound. To increase the variety, pieces on King and Queen side will in general be different. (Only the corner piece will be the same, to allow castling in both directions with the same piece.) I am thinking of the following pieces: RD7mW (the Queen replacement, Mats Winther's Adjutant, but with a color-changing non-capture) WN (Rook replacement, a color alternating 12-mover) N, WA, AG, FA (all 8-movers, the latter two color bound) K + P will be the normal FIDE pieces. The 6 (non-royal, non-Pawn) piece types make 15 different pairs (plus 6 homogeneous pairs obtainable only through promotion, of which probably only 2x RD7mW would ever occur in practice). Of these 15 heterogeneous pairs, only N + AG has no mating potential. For FA + AG they should be on unlike colors, but they start that way. There will be 8 different pairs where one of the pieces is color bound, so that the corners are not equivalent. The mate with N + FA will resemble that of B + N a lot, and be possible only in the color of the FA. Comments and suggestions welcome!
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