Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To David Paulowich wrote on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 01:32 PM UTC:Some fascinating results in this thread! NOTE: Betza never gave the FAD a proper name, in Chess With Different Armies, but Daniel C. Macdonald calls the WAD a Champion in Omega Chess. The Buffalo and the Gryphon or Griffon are used in Gigachess, a 14x14 variant by Jean-Louis Cazaux. They should each be able to checkmate, but I have never seen a computer proof. The Gryphon, FA, WD, and FWADN also appear in his new 12x12 variant: Balance 12. EDIT: Nice to see exact numbers for the Buffalo mates. I realised that both Bison and Buffalo can checkmate just after I posted. And I was thinking of Eric Greenwood's Cavalier piece when I asked about Gryphon mates. The Cavalier is a sort of multipath Gryphon, which cannot stop on any adjacent square. Benjamin C. Good wrote (March 13, 2002) that this piece cannot, in general, force mate - because it does not attack adjacent squares. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID 12x12_checkmate does not match any item.