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Bob Greenwade wrote on Sat, Mar 9 05:20 PM UTC:

235. Night Rose and 236. Roserider. This weekend's pair are examples in divergent thinking, in more ways than one. While I normally present rotary counterparts on the weekends these days, in this case they're more like "divergent counterparts."

Both pieces can move and capture normally like a Knight (a (1,2) leap), but can then continue on, and how that continuation happens is what makes them different. The Night Rose moves without capture in a circular manner (like a Rose), or captures in a straight line (like a Nightrider). (mqNcNN)

The Roserider (you guessed it) moves without capture in a straight line (like a Nightrider), but captures in a circle (like a Rose). (mNNcqN)

The Rose and Nightrider can be combined in other ways as well (including a simple compounding that I call the Nightmare*), but I'll explore those at another time.

These two were kind of thrown together a little hastily, though I think they're still usable. That's not the point of this listing, though; rather, I'm wanting in this case to encourage thinking about further expanding the possibility of rider/rose combinations. Among other things, any new (or even old) thing that I do with the Knight could also be done with the Camel, Zebra, or just about any other oblique leaper.

*I thought I'd already shared the Nightmare in this collection, but I'm not finding it on my list now. Maybe I'll bring it out next week.


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