Comments by JorgKnappen

Now this is a very silly suggestion. Not only that a Dummy in the first rank blocks castling, it has probably a negative value, and this is far too much a reduction of the value of the whole army.

P.S. I had a conversation with Joe Joyce in 2012 on the values of the Shatranjian Shooters under The Fearful Fairies page.

Seeing "Terrors" here I thought of the Tripunch Terrors by Joseph Di Muro ( the oldest comment under the entry Tripunch Chess.

A great hidden treasure among the different armies!

Also, the meticulous mashers by Ralph Betza are still missing.

So here's another Squad for CwDA. Weird pieces all around, hard to estimate their values. It would be an interesting experiment pitting it against the also highly experimental Sai Squad.

HaruN Y suggested a different move 0 rule for the Sai Squad: The Sai Squad advances its e-pawn one step (to e3 when playing white and to e6 when playing black) blocking the mate-in-one threat. This has the advantage that it applies to the Sai Squad itself and not to the other army, whatever it is. You are invited to try this alternative rule zero.

Source: https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=63529

I have found no notice that indicate that the Mashers are a retired army (but it may hide somewhere in the old comment system and was not found by a DuckDuckGo search on this site).

If anything, Betza retired his pre-1980 armies because he lacked a theory of piece values back than. The Jovian army is a relic from that time (I must admit, I like it pretty much with its weird and creative pieces). But the Mashers were created in 1997 with the newly developed theory of piece values.

The specific reason given there is that Betza wants to keep the number of armies at 4. Incidentally, in that version of CwDA, the Forward FIDEs replace the Fabulous FIDEs. I think, the Mashers are here on provisional status (need further playtesting).

I am afraid that this setup is a plain win for the winged FIDEs. They just maintain a one-figure advantage to the endgame, and gain a pawn majority under the way, too.

I don't know, but I read three squares in any direction as a combination of Dromedary and Gecko (or Threeleaper and Tripper, of HG) and the stipulation "and one square over" as an indication that it can jump over one piece (friend or foe) but not over two pieces.

I have no idea what the NightKnight's move is, a conservative interpretation would be a Nightrider restricted to two steps (NN2), but a more free interpretation could indicate a piece resembling a Chu Shogi Lion with Knight moves. Or a Knight version of the Prime Minister (like the Lion, but must stop after a capture).

Indeed, the HTML-page starts with the letter "k": https://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/knightrider.html

Imagine an outer ring of immobile pieces put around the board. Any of those virtual pieces can act as a bouncer. The Samnis can be bounced from the board edge when the first leg of the move is tangential to the edge.

The diagram seems to have an issue with the pawn promotion zones. It wrongly promoted a white pawn on d5, but it did not allow promotion of a black pawn on e8 or e1.

Three games starting with Qu with missing rules – this looks like a systematic error to me. I tried looking it up on the internet archive and found the Qua-games were broken already in November 2021. Unfortunately there is a long hiatus in the Internet archive's coverage of the alphabetical index pages between 2005 and 2021.

I don't know. I wrote the Querquisite page explicitly as a replacement for the older Zelig page, however, the Zelig page was retained for reasons I don't know.

IMO, a stalemate should count as a loss for the player inadvertedly causing it. Even as a draw, it is a bad outcome for the player with Raumvorteil. White can always retreat some pawn to allow controlled movement of Black, occupy the starting square where black came from, pulling out the black piece and capture it with the King. Finally, White has a way to win in this situation.

Maybe it is noteworthy to add the double move Ferz that can reach the same squares on the board. The double move Ferz was proposed by Wikipedia user Double Sharp to weaken the Colorbound Clobberers and named Prime Minister.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chess_with_different_armies#proposed_weakenings

Found an issue with the checkmating applet: Clicking through there it looks as if the Buffalo was missing. Opening the piece overview, there is a broken graphics symbol for both black and white buffalo.

Yes. Mention the name Mehari used by French problemists (see Jerome Grimbert, https://web.archive.org/web/20050116004034/http://jgrimbert.free.fr/pieces/p042.html )