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Mushroom. Jumping piece whose destination squares form a mushroom pattern.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
smakarov wrote on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 11:40 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Just like a fibnif on steroids ;-)

Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 07:04 AM UTC:
When I had a look at this page it was to make exactly the point of the Mushroom's similarity to the Fibnif. In particular it always moves an odd number of ranks and therefore cannot lose the move, and it also combines the Nightranker (aka Heavenly Horse), which is bound to one in four squares but of mixed colour, with a conventionally colourbound piece to form an unbound piece.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 07:16 AM UTC:
I forgot to mention, this piece could be seen as halfway from the Fibnif to the Cohartebeest, another fileswitching piece in my variant Hunterbeest which makes the most forward and backward Knight moves and the most sideways Camel moves. See if you can work out how the rankswitching Harterbeest itself moves before going to the link.

Vasil Vasil wrote on Wed, Jan 15 11:04 AM UTC:

dag this website is old anyways the mushroom is lowkey cool


Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Apr 9 02:31 PM UTC:

There is an error in the description of this piece in the piececlopedia index. It is presented as fhNbbNbF when it should be ffbbNfsCbF.


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 9 03:11 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 02:31 PM:

There is an error in the description of this piece in the piececlopedia index. It is presented as fhNbbNbF when it should be ffbbNfsCbF.

I fixed the description in the Piececlopedia index. I did not try to decipher your Betza code, though I did note that neither matched the code given by Betza himself, which was fbNfsLbF. I based my updated description on a closer examination of the diagram.


Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Apr 9 04:05 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:11 PM:

Well, at least in XBetza, ffbbN works for narrow knight. I think fbN is a bit ambiguous, but it probably works too in HG's programs!


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