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Skica. 10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Oct 9, 2022 02:58 AM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Sat Oct 8 06:06 AM:

That link is not in the Skica page and is not in the Alphabetical Index.

I've added a link to the preset in the Notes section. There's already a submission to include it in the index, which hasn't been accepted yet.

Fwiw, I tend to agree with Gilman's conflation of jumping ski‐bishop with Tamerlane's non‐jumping Talia/Vanguard/Scout/Picket (he selects the latter term), on the grounds that they reach the same squares, like leaping and non‐leaping elephants

In that case, would you also want to use the same term for Knight, Mao, and Moa? What about 'Rook' for a piece that leaps to any square on the same rank or file? I think the jumping ability makes a big difference in how the piece feels to play with. I wish I could understand more of those Man and Beast articles. They quickly get hard to follow due to the dense paragraphs and broken diagrams.