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My Pychess' ✍variant-design-contest submission

How to express the below piece(Conjurer) by Betza notation? This piece can move Ferz and a zig zag by slide, it is not jumping.

Conjurer
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You mean it can only move to (say) c5 if either b4 or d4 is empty? This would be FasF, or [F?sF] (which is equal to F[F-sF]) in bracket notation.

Thank you very much. It works well. I am weak in the notation of a.

Yes, the bracket notation is easier. But it does not work yet for all combinations of moves. I hope to fix that one day.

I have not ever heard the bracket notation. Maybe, I seem that I am hard to understand the system like a [] or ?-.

The [] are just delimiters to indicate everything written between them describes a single move. A dash - means continuation, and separates the various 'legs' of the move, a question mark indicates the continuation is optional, and that what was written before it is a valid move in itself. So [F-sF] means an F move mandatorily followed by another F move in the sideway direction (i.e. perpendicular to the first). By default non-final legs must go to empty squares, and continuation legs go as much as possible in the same direction.

Thank you for your lecture. I have learned very well, but it is very hard to understand for English. I am now learning English and Betza notation scripts etc. by this page. I am glad to make public of my jobs.

1-dimensional chess by inaccessible cardinal, AKA luck_provider, fourfours1234, 0tothepowerof0is0

XaoQi by me

A silly variant I made on the Play-Test Applet back on 2/12/2023.

Shah's Game by Representative, AKA representativecan7

But 960.

Queen-exclusive X-ray Check Chess by me

Event's Revised Chess by Eventlesstew, AKA nishinishi

But with shuffle.

I cannot change the status of my recent article from private. I have tried your advice but error has been occurred. Please help me with my problem.

Same.

"As a Veteran contributor with nine or more submissions published so far, you are limited to submitting nine of your games for review and publication at a time. If you would like to post more, cooperate with the editors to get your submissions accepted, or revert something to a work-in-progress and submit something else."

Why ask me? The text already tells you what to do and I'm not an editor at least as I type this.

That's why I posted Interactive Diagrams for my variants in the comments section instead.

OK, thanks. I am looking for that the editor notices me.

Dwarvish Chess by Antsan

But 960.

Battlefront by yoshilikes24-chesscraft94, AKA YoshiLikes

I like your CwDA sets in Chesscraft.

For example

Acidic Animals, code 55D7

Chinese Cannoneers, code 5TDY

Cutty Camels, code 3f5w, 3n7b

Divergent Dreamers, code 3cc5

Geared Geckoes, code 5L0Z

Sharp Snipers, code 5UAZ

Suspicious Spies, code 3drz

Treacherous Trebuchets, code 53TV

Zen Zebras, code 4cv6

I wish to see more CwDA sets in Chesscraft.

Thanks! Any ideas on what army I should make next?

How about an army based on morphing pieces? Such as the Mad Morphers:

The Acolyt morphs every move, the General only when it captures. The Warrior changes its jump between orthogonal and diagonal, depending on which of the two it makes. The move of the Elk depends on the square shade.

[Edit] Perhaps design 2 is closer matched ro FIDE and the value of morphing pairs is more homogeneous.

I am also contemplating a Happy Hoppers army. It might contain some of the following pieces:

[Edit] I like the 'Cricket'. It seems a nice way to introduce a grasshopper move into an army, without resorting to very weak pieces like the Grasshopper itself. By making it divergent, with a normal capture, it is also avoided that the piece becomes worthless in the late end-game. In fact, mgQcQ is a major piece: it can force checkmate just together with its King!

Problem is that it is very strong. I am testing it now in Fairy Max, and it even beats a Dragon King RF. But it can be weakened by decreasing the range of the capture. Even mgQcQ3 is still a major piece.

Looks like Killer Kangaroo crashed the Interactive Diagram so I changed its XBetza notation to mQcafmQ(af)mpafoabK here.