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George Duke wrote on Tue, Jan 6, 2015 06:28 PM UTC:
Keeping more of the development here, named Duking Falcons Chess Different Army is bound to be offbeat on small 8x8. So are Remarkable Rookies weird on 8x8 and would do better on 8x10. You are co-inventor because it did not occur to me to make CDA with even Scorpion included. The array is Dragon-Scorpion-Falcon-WereQueen-King-Falcon-Scorpion-Dragon, because as Muller points out, Dragon not ever reaching center had better start in the corner.

Since Ralph Betza took 20 years to change Chess Unequal Army to Chess Different Army, there is time to work out the exact name, able to be called "Falcon Scorpion Army" too.

The values re-calibrated for Scorpion also not able to make two completely forward moves in a row are Falcon 4.5, Scorpion 3.5, Dragon 3.0. That makes 22 points and leaves 9 points for Queen. Notice Falcon is equal to Rook on boards 8x10 and up, but on little 64 would be just 4.5. Muller or programmers could test different configurations but they're bound to find '4.5' on the primitive 64-square board.

The Were-Queen moves to Queen squares like Tim Stiles' Wolf and Fox: Wolf, Fox. WereQueen is two-path and has different pathways getting to its squares than Boyscout or Panda or Strange Bishop that Jeremy Good talks about (in emails) for his defined Mal-Queen. By definition, WereQueen excludes the Stiles' squares not belonging to standard Queen, and by prior definition Fox and Wolf cannot stop adjacently. There is one prior use of Wolf and Fox in a CV, what is it?

If it turns out this Army is 32 not 31 points, we can prohibit the squares up to two away if necessary, thus making the first stops (0,2) and (2,2). As it is, WereQueen is compound of Fox and Wolf limited to Queen-radial directions and each arrival square is the two-path. The improvement suggested by Jeremy keeps all the piece-types multi-path. Since the potent eight adjacent squares are excluded, WereQueen may just be the wanted 9 points though benefiting a bit by having second pathway compared to 500-year orthodox Queen. It should be interesting to play, because no pieces except Pawns and King attack an adjacent square, but both Scorpion and Falcon have solitary mating potential, that is sovereign value of 1! So 5 starting pieces can mate alone with King on King.

Is there any significance 31 (points) is the first-two-digit-prime 11th prime? No.


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