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George Duke wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2004 03:44 PM UTC:Poor ★
Bad enough that CVP editor no less lifts 'Horus' from major theme of 600
lines of Falcon Chess poetry since 2000.  Peter Aronson also puts out 
misleading description of Falcon move beginning, 'Falcon moves
like a Bison.'  Hardly correct. Falcon is a Rider with one or two
45-degree turns. 'Bison' appears nowhere in 2000 Pritchard's
'Encyclopedia of CV' games or 2000 more games in CVP (4000 total games so
far). Fitting into no false, preconceived template, Falcon does not jump
like Knight (1,2), or Camel (1,3) or Zebra (2,3).  Whereas, theoretical
Bison is a (1,3)(2,3)Leaper defined in very rare couple of problems.  My 
Patent Disclosure in January 1995 cites three(3)Pritchard ECV games with (Z+N)
compound and three others with (C+N). 
'Actual Bison' (as Zebra plus Camel), even if it appeared in any game, would not
particularly elucidate Falcon move, since they are from wholly different
families of pieces, Leapers and Riders. Aronson goes on that Falcon (US
Patent 5690334) has greater piece value than 'lame Bison.' What is that? He never 
defines it.  What to make of describing a fundamental Chess
piece (Falcon, with R, N, B the other three such) in terms of what it is
not?  It's like playing a game of twenty(20) Questions: is it this, or is it
that, until what is left out of everything possible is what it is.

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