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Jeremy Good wrote on Sat, Sep 1, 2007 03:38 PM UTC:
Here is an idea for a new set of pieces.

I was looking at Giant Chess this morning and trying out a new design adding a giant ferz near the giant wazir (dev) and sets of leos (paos + vaos) on the first two ranks. It led me to think about how one might make consistent compounds out of knights plus paos and vaos to complement the marshalls and cardinals.

I came up with a piece that moves without capturing as mao but can only capture if there is an obstructing piece on the wazir square (sort of the knight equivalent of the chinese cannon or pao). Same idea with vao + moa (a moa that can only capture when there is a piece obstructing on the ferz square). Now for the hard part: Designing such icons for these pieces. Here is an idea for names for these four new pieces. A maolo and a moala, a paomaolo and a vaomoala.

[Equivalent of Amazon would be piece that can move like paomaolo, vaomoala or leo; tentatively calling it the leolola.]

[Or leomoma, maybe, therefore, lioness. ;-) ]


Jeremy Good wrote on Sat, Sep 8, 2007 08:59 AM UTC:

Maolo + Moalo might be called a Nmaowoa or 'might' or 'mite' -- a piece that is weaker and more nuanced than a knight...can only move without capturing as a moa or mao and can only capture if it sits next to an adjacent piece (of either color). [Adjacent piece has to be adjacent to both the mite and the piece the mite would smite.]


Claudio Martins Jaguaribe wrote on Wed, Jan 6, 2010 04:56 PM UTC:
What about a giant man, at least? After all, is a missing compund between
the two other giants...

Hugs.

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 07:38 AM UTC:
Another interesting variation on the Mao/Moa family would be a piece
requiring an empty Mao pass-through and an occupied Moa one, a piece
requiring the opposite, and a compound of the two. Any thoughts of names
for that lot? Note that the last is different from the Hopping Moo, which
requires an occupied pass-through but need not have an empty one.

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