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Suffix Index to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of suffixes used in the Man and Beast series.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 07:10 AM UTC:
Certainly the Grasshopper can move in a direction in which a piece is adjacent, it is just that it has to move exactly two steps in that direction. It is true that the Contragrasshopper too can make that move, and can also make longer moves in the same circumstances which the Grasshopper cannot. It is also true that the Grasshopper is alwys restricted to how far it can go - three steps in directions in which the nearest piece is two steps away, four steps where it is three away, et cetera. The Contragrasshopper, however, cannot move at all in directions in which the nearest piece is not adjacent. This makes it seem to me that the pieces are similar in strength.