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Piececlopedia: Rabbit. A doubly-bent rider, inspired by the Gryphon and Aanca.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Howe wrote on Sat, Oct 2, 2004 08:49 PM EDT:
Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Oct 4, 2004 03:11 AM EDT:Tim Stiles wrote on Wed, Oct 6, 2004 01:39 AM EDT:After rejecting divergent pieces¹, pieces moving forward/backward as one Bent piece and sideways as another², and pieces making two turns a step apart in the middle³, I thought of retaining the double-bent theme but with both turns at the start. Thus the Rabbit might be defined as making a Mao move followed optionally by a second 45° turn and a Rook move, and the Hare as making a Moa move followed optionally by a second 45° turn and a Bishop move. In each case the second turn could be in either direction. These pieces are both interesting and manageable, and could quickly appear in a variant. There could even be a Contrarabbit and Contrahare with both bends at the end. Of course other CVP members might have even better ideas - including yourself - so if you are willing to open up the question of what kind of piece to call Rabbit it would interestiung to read such cuggestions.
¹ These tend to have servile names, and neither real nor literary lagomorphs are noted for servility. Better suiting divergent pieces involving a Bent or Double-Bent move would be names of the great many dog breeds(although Foxhound and Wolfhound are already taken for Bishop compounds).
² This felt too contrived to me.
³ Still too strong, despite being blockable and barred from moving less than three steps.
if you are willing to open up the question of what kind of piece to call Rabbit it would interestiung to read such cuggestions.
I actually found this page because I was thinking of doing something similar. I think the Rabbit would work best with a combination of Bishop, Knight, and Antelope, because its Betza notation would be BNNY.
Bn Em wrote on Wed, Jul 19, 2023 04:51 PM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 03:28 PM:BNNY
Very Betzan thinking :)
Gilman did end up proposing, a few years later, Rabbit as a Baronwise (i.e. 3D‐exclusive) Chu‐shogi Lion relative; Bunny was tabled later in the same thread for its forward‐only counterpart. They (and the Dukewise — and thus available in Hex — Bull) never made it into Man and Beast though.
I have added AI concept art of a rabbit piece to this page.
I still agree very much with this old comment. This piece is not worth being in the piecoclopedia.
It should be merged in to some Piece essay, like the page bent riders by Betza
It should be merged in to some Piece essay, like the page bent riders by Betza
The very first comment on this page, as well as the Fox and Wolf pages was from me saying that it violated the Piececlopedia guidelines and should be removed. David Howe apologized and said he would create an article on double riders instead. I don't think he ever did write that article, but there is one by George Duke called Multipath Chess Pieces that covers more than just double riders and does mention these pieces.
Unused pieces? Not on my watch!
Stylish Stiles
Wolf is a strengthened Rook & Fox is a strengthened Bishop but Rabbit isn't much stronger than Nightrider (at least on an 8×8) but just harder to read.
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