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Thanks for the kind comments. Regarding the diagonal, I have to agree with gnohmon that Glinski's diagonal did not appeal to me. I did not use it except in a way with the Knight's special Hero move--but that is a jump anyway. With regard to the Hero, that is an idea that I've been mulling about for some time, that pieces are either mobilized or given special powers by a leader piece--in this case the Hero. There are other games that use related ideas, such as Fergus Duniho's Interdependent Chess and Joao Neto's Delegating Chess. I was also trying for a fun game. In that regard, I like the Elephant's charge. Its rather odd, perhaps, but reminiscent of rampant battle elephants. Thanks to Peter Aronson for some very good suggestions to improve playability.