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Piececlopedia: Fox. Doubly-bent rider, inspired by the Gryphon and Aanca.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 2, 2004 07:41 PM EDT:
This page violates the Piececlopedia guidelines and so should be removed. The Piececlopedia is reserved for pieces that have previously appeared in games or fairy chess problems.

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Oct 3, 2004 08:50 AM EDT:
Note the usage of the names wolf and fox in Wolf chess.

--J%org Knappen

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Jun 5, 2006 02:38 AM EDT:
I have now included this piece in a subvariant of my 4 Linepiece Fusion. This resolves the anomaly of it being in the Piececlopedia but not qualifying. In the process I have also thrown in some names for compounds of this kind of piece.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Dec 23, 2006 02:50 AM EST:Good ★★★★
I have been thinking further about pieces of this kind. It occurs to me that the Fox can be seen as a compound of two weaker pieces - a 'samewise' Fox that always makes two left or two right turns, and a 'contrariwise' Fox that always makes one of each. The first shares the Bishop's destinations but by a less direct route, the second those of the Lama (Dabbaba then Bishop) but with two turns instead of one. I take the 45° nature of the turn to apply equally in 3d, so that on both cubic and hex-prism boards the Fox still moves in only one plane in each move and so still has the same two components (but with more pairs of opposites than just left/right). The forward-only piece, the Foxcub, is always contrariwise. The Hyena, with 1:1:1 rather than 1:0:0 steps toppoing and tailing the Bishop section, would similarly have Samewise and Contrariwise components, but so would its forward-only version (Hyenacub?).

George Duke wrote on Fri, Nov 21, 2008 01:37 PM EST:Good ★★★★
Stiles' Fox is doubly bent rider, two-path to only some of its squares.

NeodymiumPhyte wrote on Sat, Dec 16, 2023 11:15 PM EST:

Shouldn't move option 2) include a lame dabbaba move?


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 16 01:27 PM EDT:

I am replacing the Fox image shown below with a new one. The old one was made with Stable Diffusion, and the new one is made with Google Image FX.


Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Apr 17 01:58 AM EDT:

@ Fergus (or whomever may [have written]/[later revise] this Piececlopedia article discussing the Fox fairy piece type):

Further below, I've provided a link to a fairly recent Comment of mine, on this CVP website, that includes discussion of one image of a Fox fairy piece, that is currently available in a CVP Diagram Designer Piece Set. In the link that image is shown, and if that image is ever considered by any viewer for possible inclusion in that Piececlopedia article, i.e. as part of any future revision[s] to this article, then, to whomever it may concern, please keep a reminder to that effect, if need be:

https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=64707


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