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Your piece seems to be very much like George Duke's Falcon in <A href=/large.dir/falcon.html> Falcon Chess</A>, which is the same 16-way lame jumper, but with a different standard for lameness. It needs at least one of three <I>pairs</I> of free squares, which makes it a bit less lame, I think. (The diagrams are quite explicit.)
I prefer your proposal as to lameness, but I think the 10x8 array of Falcon Chess with standards Rooks, Bishops and Knights should be more enjoyable. (Well, just my two cents.)
I've done some work recently on a family of chess variants that generalize basic R-B-N piece movements and I more-or-less 'found' a generalization in the Mao-Moa family. I was wondering if anyone had run into the 'new' piece in other games and could provide me with any CVs that use it. The piece of interest is similar to a 'Bison' ([3,2] leaper + [3,1] leaper). Instead of leaping directly to its destination, it must first pass over a vacant space a Knight's-leap away, then continue one space orthogonally (in the N-leaps long direction) or diagonally (in the N-leaps combination of directions) to its destination. The context I'm using it in is 'Octoid Chess'. Instead of the 4-4-8 basic directions of the 'tetroid' R-B-N, I adopt 8-8-16 directions. On an 8x8 board R moves one ore two spaces like a standard chess Queen, B is one or two leaps like a Nightrider, the 'new' piece has the 16 directions, one step like the Octoid B, then like the Octoid R (Ks/Qs/Ps as in standard chess, castling also standard).
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