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Zwangkrieg. Pieces affect other pieces' movement, including forced movement. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Sep 7, 2023 02:40 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 02:22 PM:

Well, it is the pieces that are being moved. By your reasoning every chess variant coerces the pieces...

OK, so the Shoving Rook is not really what I thought: I imagined it would always end up at the square where the shoved piece was.So it is cafyabuR. I am still amazed by the things that can be described with XBetza. The only drawback is that the description is difficult to grasp for a human. I really should work some more on the bracket notation, which would describe the above move by [cR-R-buW]. A rudimentary form of this already works, but would require you to write directional modifiers on every leg, lest these would be interpreted as "going in arbitrary direction". Since the a is not needed for chaining legs in bracket notation, it could be used to indicate arbitrary direction, and the default directional modifier could be made into f.