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Pancake. A piece that moves and captures like a non-royal King or a Nightrider-style cannon.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Michael Nelson wrote on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 10:00 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Interesting piece and an interesting CWDA army. 

I would guess the Pancake would be a very strong minor piece--maybe even a
weak major piece, as the non-royal King is very strong by itself and the
cannon-Nightrider, while useless in the endgame, is potentiallly deadly in
the opening and in closed position middlegames. Probably equal to the Rook
very early, declining to a quantum or two better than the Bishop very
late.

Perhaps the Queen would combine the Waffle and Donut. This piece carpet
bombs the 2-square radius around it and the Wazir move helps with
positioning it favorably--though a Ferz move would be more useful.  It
this is a little weak, maybe add the cannon-Nightrider component from the
Pancake. 

With this sort of Queen, the army will have some of the feel of the Pizza
Kings (no long range pieces, good short range coverage), but the
cannon-Nightrider will add a new element.