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Immobilizer. Pieces standing near an immobilizer may not move.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Andy Maxson wrote on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 03:22 PM EST:Good ★★★★

this piece looks intersting but has little mobility when immobilizing I
have invented a piece,
 the basilisk which moves as a queen cannot capture, but immobilizes
pieces a knight's move away.

MHowe wrote on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 04:49 PM EST:

My variants Optima and Nova Chess, which once were but are no longer available on these pages, featured a basilisk that immobilized at a knight's move. So there is precedent and your piece is not a new invention. Quite a coincidence (?) that you chose the same name for the same effect. Nova Chess is still in development, but Optima is not.

Gene wrote on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 03:01 PM EDT:

The sentence that begins 'The coordinator can never move...' should instead say 'The immobilizer can never move...'

M Winther wrote on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 01:08 PM EDT:

If you're interested in this type of paralyzing piece, then have a look on my Pyrrhus Chess. The Pyrrhus moves and captures like a king. In addition, it paralyses any enemy piece within queen-move range. It seems to be as valuable as a queen. 
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/pyrrhuschess.htm
/Mats

Ken Kyllingmark wrote on Sun, Dec 5, 2010 03:11 AM EST:Good ★★★★

The immobilizer is awesome at freezing your enemy's armies, but here's an issue which I know Robert Abbott didn't think of: If you use the immobilizer in a game which also uses shooting pieces (for example Rifle Chess), can immobilized pieces still shoot? Does anyone know how that would work?

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