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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 12, 2021 02:42 AM UTC:

I have written a script that will list the pieces in the PieceInfo table:

https://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/pieces.php

Each PieceID is linked to the Piececlopedia page with a /page/* URL, and each has a description, a category, and a variable number of attributes. The category is used for grouping them, and the category name appears in a heading instead of in the table. The description should provide a clear understanding of how a piece moves. Some attributes match categories, but others do not.

I am still working on selecting the terminology. I think Chimera is a good term for a piece that combines selected powers of different pieces without being a full compound piece. But I'm still unsettled on the term I should use for pieces that possess a subset of the powers of a particular piece. I described these with the Incomplete category and the Asymmetric attribute. However, the Asymmetric attribute also applies to Chimeras, and I don't really like the term Incomplete. The pages for the Barc and Crab describe them as restricted knights. I could use the Restricted attribute, but I was already using it to describe long-range pieces that have some restriction on their ability to move in the directions they are allowed to move. For example, the Edgehog moves like a Queen but with the restriction that its move goes from one edge to another. One possibility is to just extend the meaning of Restricted to allow it to also include an inability to move in a particular direction that its parent piece can move in. For example, a Lance could be described as a restricted Rook. I described the Hippogriff as Restricted, which moves as a Griffon with the restriction that it cannot go to the first three spaces in its path. Although this is not reducing the directions a piece can move, it is straightforwardly reducing the spaces it may move to. Thoughts?


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