Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Mar 1, 2007 07:41 PM UTC:Mats Winther has just posted a new piece, the Scout, which moves as a camel and captures as a queen. Interesting piece, moving as a shortrange leaper and capturing as a longrange power piece. [Possibly the name 'Scout' inspires leaping pieces; Greg Strong's Scout piece (Brouhaha, Hubbub) also leaps 3 squares. Think I've seen others.] The converse of this piece would be a piece moving as an unlimited slider that captures with a shortrange move. If it's a crooked and/or leaping shortrange capture, the piece might be restricted to bishop [or maybe rook] to limit its power a bit. Whether or not you limited the shortrange capture to just the bishop's original color, just the opposite, or both colors would affect the power considerably. The idea of balancing queen moves with, say, alfil captures, just doesn't thrill me. A queen that captures as a king would be a tricky piece to use. A queen capturing as a knight is probably a bad idea, especially on larger boards or with lower piece densities. Tricky concept, [maybe a little annoying, as I prefer pieces to capture the way they move, it's simpler] worth developing. ***Edit*** Oops! Just read Michael Howe's full comment - sorry for poaching on your idea. A knightrider-king - how does that compare to the queen-king? Defense against the NN-K should be a specialty of some shortrange pieces, as the knight, like the camel, can only land in restricted spots. A moderately powerful shortrange piece could guard those spots where a linear piece couldn't. There is a comment by M. Howe and another by M. Winther that I would like to address in this thread [from my own perspective, of course :-) ]. But let me give Mats' new piece a rating [and check the laundry!] Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Long and Short does not match any item.