Fergus, I see that we are equally minded. I, also, feel attracted by
gathering east and west (that's the driver of my Shako, check it out).
Also, I had proposed to use the 'Vao' long time ago in my Gigachess
:http://chessvariants.com/large.dir/gigachess.html
I called it 'crossbow', you call it 'arrow'. Les grands esprits se
rencontrent !