Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 05:44 PM UTC:
I'm not sure that British Chess needs another piece type, but it's always
fun to think about pieces.
I looked a little, and the only use of the Stag as a variant chess-piece I
could find was in Fantasy Grand Chess'
Druid Army, where it's a WH (Wazir + (0,3) leaper).
In general, quadruped-named pieces seem to be leapers or lame versions of
leapers: Horse, Camel, Antelope, Gnu, etc. One sort of piece that British
Chess doesn't have is a non-rider leaper, and that might be a nice addition
to the mix. Perhaps the (as far as I know unnamed) combination of Knight
and Zebra which occasionally shows up on large board variants? It's
color-changing, which means that one is not enough for mate with the usual
King, but powerful enough to be useful.
I looked a little, and the only use of the Stag as a variant chess-piece I could find was in Fantasy Grand Chess' Druid Army, where it's a WH (Wazir + (0,3) leaper).
In general, quadruped-named pieces seem to be leapers or lame versions of leapers: Horse, Camel, Antelope, Gnu, etc. One sort of piece that British Chess doesn't have is a non-rider leaper, and that might be a nice addition to the mix. Perhaps the (as far as I know unnamed) combination of Knight and Zebra which occasionally shows up on large board variants? It's color-changing, which means that one is not enough for mate with the usual King, but powerful enough to be useful.