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Gary Gifford wrote on Sat, Oct 27, 2007 11:22 PM UTC:
When you want to use Mr. Duke's wonderful Falcon piece, but are concerned about the patent, you can either:

(a) kindly ask for Mr. Duke's permission

(b) simply use the earlier Bison.

The excellent Bison piece can move twice like a Ferz and then once like a Wazir (or visa versa) in an outward direction from its starting point. And it can jump! (the Falcon can't jump, but can zig-zag around in different ways, to give the appearance of jumping)

Anyway, the Bison is easier to use and would be my preferred piece, of the two.


George Duke wrote on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 04:22 PM UTC:
Jeremy Good points out why Omega Chess cannot work well with its two new
pieces on 8x10, or any 8-ranked operation. Simply its 'Wizard', with the
Camel leap as half its move modality, becomes overbearing; just try it
out and see JGood is right. So, the Poor yet CVPage-Recognized game Omega
is stuck with its big awkward board(s). Bison was a problemist's creation
of 1970's never incorporated into a CV as such. The late David
Pritchard's 'Encyclopedia of Chess Variants' has several uses of triple-compound leaper Knight+Camel+Zebra  earlier on large boards. [ECV also shows a number of examples of Knight+Camel and Knight+Zebra in CVs' pieces] Falcon can be thought of as the first use of a Bison in a CV, to begin to understand Falcon. Quickly one realizes that on 8x10, a full-powered Bison is worse than Wizard in dictating strategy, although Queen of course still has the highest point value. By 10x10 Bison is as nice a piece as a Falcon. Any popular chesses or FIDE forms are unlikely to go to 10x10, or even approaching it at 9x10 or 9x11, in the 21st Century. After all, the standard has been 64 squares for 1400 years(before even time of The Prophet Mohammed).

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Dec 14, 2009 07:32 AM UTC:
Were George Duke to substitute 'with much success' for 'as such' he would be nearer the truth. As far as I can see the first variant to use the Bison was Herd, and I have added two variants of my own building on it but these have not been received well.

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