Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To V. Reinhart wrote on Fri, Feb 24, 2017 12:05 AM UTC:The Huygens Chess Piece The huygens is a chess piece that jumps in a rook's direction any prime number of squares (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23,...). I use it in the chess variant Trappist-1. "H" - Huygens In some games it may be limited to a minimum jump so that it is not a close attacker. The following are my estimates of the huygens' value based on its minimum jump: Allowed Jumps - Estimated Piece Value: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11...(value = rook + 2 pawns) 3, 5, 7, 11... (value = rook+) 5, 7, 11... (value = bishop+) There are an infinite number of prime numbers, so in theory a huygens can jump infinitely far. However, not all prime numbers are known. The largest known prime number is [2^(74,207,281) − 1] (which has 22,338,618 digits). Although a huygens can jump infinitely far, when playing chess, the players must declare the specific square that a piece is to be moved to. So this limits the distance that a huygens can travel in a single move. It is the player that moves the huygens that carries the burden to prove that a number is prime. (If his opponent requests it, he would need to cite the source showing the leaping distance is a prime number). An example of a large legal move would be: Hb[(2,996,863,034,895 x 2^(1,290,000) + 1], Chris K. Caldwell. "The Top Twenty Twin Primes" In an actual game there would not normally be any reason to move a piece this far, because then it would lose its targets, and especially its ability to create forks in different directions. But I think it's good to make sure all the rules of a game and its pieces are carefully defined, so there will be no questions or points of contention once a game starts. The huygens (white) is shown in the diagram below on square b2, and its moves are indicated with red symbols. 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