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Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Mar 18 10:31 PM UTC:

@Daniel: Biplane and Triplane have the same definition in Greater Tiger Chess.

I suggest you change the name of Aanca to Manticore, or Rhinoceros, but not Aanca to avoid perpetuating this sticking mistake. Aanca is F then R.


Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2023 02:34 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

I really like this! The "leap-and-slide" pieces take "ski" moves to a new dimension, and are quite innovative (at least, I don't know of any earlier incidents of that; but then again I'm a relative newbie at CVs). I probably will "borrow" the Tiger and/or Astrologer for a future variant (I've even gone so far as to design pieces for them on Thingiverse).


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sat, Nov 26, 2022 12:25 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Fri Nov 25 01:37 AM:

Yes, I think it is better. As it is right now, the text allows more moves than the diagram. Of course the diagram is clear in itself but it is never good to have a difference, one might wonder if the diagram is wrong.

I had seen somewhere (maybe in AI AI?) this piece defined as "leaps as a narrow knight then slides outwards vertically or leaps as a wide knight then slides outwards horizontally". But it can be argued that one needs to know what narrow Knight and wide Knight mean.

Whatever, I suggest to add something to remove the wrong interpretation.


💡📝Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Nov 25, 2022 01:37 AM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Thu Nov 24 10:08 PM:

I can see the potential confusion, but I don't like to make the description so complicated. What about The Pegasus leaps as a knight and may then slide as a rook in the outwardmost direction?


Bn Em wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 11:57 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 10:08 PM:

It's ‘outward’ in the same sense that the Shōgi Knight moves ‘forward’; only the most outward of the directions counts.

Arguably could be specified more clearly, but the diagram does imo clarify sufficiently which sense is meant


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 10:08 PM UTC:

The definition of the Pegasus is incomplete and confusing:

"The Pegasus leaps as a knight and may then slide outward as a rook" It should be said that "The Pegasus leaps as a knight, one orthogonal step followed by a diagonal step leaping the intervening square, and may then slide outward as a rook on the same orthogonal direction"

For example, a Pegasus on a1 may go on b3,b4,b5,etc. it may not go on b3,c3,d3,etc. which is also leaping as a knight and then slide outward as a rook.


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Oct 2, 2022 06:11 AM UTC:

I was looking for the GC page for Tiger Chess. It is not visible in the Alphabetical Index. To find it I had to go in the database of the logs. Maybe someone can add this GC page for Tiger Chess in the Alphabetical Index?


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