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Correction to my previous comment: Timothy Newton is not Australian, just
thorough enough in his research to give that impression. I also mistook
his stereotyped opening to Outback Chess for a sign of the self-mocking
irony that the Australians share with the British. I discovered my error
in the interview with him as 84-square winner. Apologies to him if he is
offended, but hopefully he will instead feel flattered for writing so
convincing a themed game. To sum up the remaining claims of the Almay and
Newton Kangaroos:
	Almay: age, very impressive leap.
	Newton: used in a game and a pzize-winning game at that, maintains
beast-name convention of Gnu/Gazelle/Bison.

While I personally prefer the Newton Kangaroo, the Almay Kangaroo does have a couple of other things in its favor:

1. There's no other name for that particular move. The Newton Kangaroo is also called a Hospitaller (and occasionally Princess).
2. The Hospitaller's rotary counterpart (ND to its NA) is the Templar. The Kangaroo's is the Carpenter (with other names including Scribe, Ouroboros, and Doughnut). In a game with both pieces, Hospitaller and Templar makes the most sense.

But... the Newton Kangaroo has an easy Betza notation (NA). The Almay Kangaroo's move is interesting, but I'm not even sure how it can be notated.

PS: Am I the only one who finds the picture of the tailless Kangaroo disturbing? It looks like some other animal trying to do what a bear does in the woods.

It looks like some other animal trying to do what a bear does in the woods.

:-)

The XBetza for this Kangaroo is easy enough: two sliding hop legs followed by a final step. So pafpyafQ, or [pQ-pQ-K] in bracket notation.

PS: Am I the only one who finds the picture of the tailless Kangaroo disturbing? It looks like some other animal trying to do what a bear does in the woods.

You are not the only one.

The XBetza for this Kangaroo is easy enough: two sliding hop legs followed by a final step. So pafpyafQ, or [pQ-pQ-K] in bracket notation.

Easy for you, maybe.... :P

pafgQ

True, that would work too. I try to avoid the legacy use of p in multi-leg moves, though. I think the bracket notation [pQ-pQ-K] is very intuitive: hop twice as Q, and then land as K for capturing or moving. By making continuation in as much the same direction as possible the default in this context, it hardly needs any modifiers.