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Nachtmahr. Game with seven different kinds of Nightriders. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 02:22 PM UTC:

Shuffle Nachtmahr

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Bob Greenwade wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 03:54 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 02:22 PM:

The "worsen" is interesting. Did you come up with it yourself?

HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 04:01 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 03:54 PM:

If you're talking about the piece name.

Bob Greenwade wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 04:17 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 04:01 PM:

I actually was thinking about the move.

HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 05:08 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 04:17 PM:

It's Jörg Knappen's.

Bob Greenwade wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 05:16 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 05:08 PM:

Nice! Also logical. It's not in this game, of course (unless I'm missing something); do you have a link to where it is?

HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 05:31 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 05:16 PM:

It's not in this game but is mentioned on this page. I included it as a piece that can only be obtained through promotions in my interactive diagram because it just felt right. Also pressing restart will shuffle the pieces since I'm not a fan of the starting position on this page.

Bob Greenwade wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2024 05:35 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 05:31 PM:

Ah, I see it now -- the last paragraph under Notes.

Thanks! :)

💡📝Jörg Knappen wrote on Sat, Nov 23, 2024 08:08 AM UTC:

HaruN Y rediscovered the 135-degree-rose recently and named it "Worsen"

https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=56364

I don't like this name, I suggest "Rose of Jericho" instead.

HaruN Y wrote on Sat, Nov 23, 2024 12:25 PM UTC in reply to Jörg Knappen from 08:08 AM:

I intentionally gave it a name that sounds like a verb here for a pun.

HaruN Y wrote on Wed, May 7 02:34 PM UTC in reply to Kelvin Voskuijl from Tue Feb 11 2020 11:45 PM:

Can you provide a movement diagram for that?

💡📝Jörg Knappen wrote on Thu, May 8 07:59 PM UTC in reply to Kelvin Voskuijl from Tue Feb 11 2020 11:45 PM:

By chosing a direction for the first turn you create a chiral piece, and a quite messy one of its kind since it mixes wide and narrow moves. The only other rotationally symmetric nightriders are the two possible "half quintessences" by chosing lateral (3L) or diagonal (3D) continuations only. I still have them in my mind to stage them in some game to be designed.

Of course, there are also potential combination pieces, the Boa used by problemists is only one of them.

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