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V. Reinhart wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2017 03:07 AM UTC:
To Fergus, Greg, and all others concerned,
I would like to submit a piece to the CVP Piececlopedia, and hope you can add it to the catalog.
The chess piece is the Huygens and is played in Trappist-1 and can also be played in variations of Chess on an Infinite Plane .
Including this piece in Piececlopedia will help demonstrate that CVP remains focused on keeping the catalog up-to-date, especially with new pieces that bring new tactical concepts to variant chess games. The huygens is also a piece which is interesting to mathemeticians doing work in the field of game theory, including those who study chess games played on an infinite chessboard.
(Aurelian pointed out to me the YouTube video about Infinite Chess which has become widely popular among chess players. For those who have not seen it can view it here):
 
YouTube Video - Infinite Chess
 
Two graphics of the huygens are shown here. The first was designed by Fergus Duniho. Other details are below.
 
Name: Huygens
History: Named after Christiaan Huygens, a prominent Dutch mathematician and astonomer. Chess piece invented by vickalan, and was first used in mid-2016.
Movement: The huygens jumps prime numbers of squares in orthogonal directions (so jumps 2, 3, 5, 7, 11,...squares). It is sometimes played with a different minimum jump distance, so that it is not a close-attacking piece.
Note: One graphic of the huygens was designed by Fergus Duniho, and was originally specified as a king-bishop (from the Abstract Piece Set). It is also used as the huygens, such as in Trappist-1.
Thank you for considering this piece for CVP's Piececlopedia.

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