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Onslaught. Several pieces can capture only on the enemy half, favoring attack. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Feb 1 07:15 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 05:53 PM:

From their own board half they either ride to an empty square, or capture the King with a single leap. The k means capture of a King (originally introduced for describing the Xiangqi ban on King facing as a kR move on the Kings). Because it would be meaningless to use in in combination with c, which means capture anything, which aleady includes King, it was later decided to have the combination of k and c mean capture anything but King.

I added this possibility to check because of Adam's remark that it would be difficult to checkmate a King that took refuge on the enemy board half without it.

I coined the term 'flash leaper' inspired by the term 'flash mob', a crowd that seems to assemble from nowhere, under social-media guidance.