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Peter Aronson wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 03:07 PM UTC:
Well, I'm afraid I don't see the Contramatic King and the Anti-King as being the same thing at all. The Contramtic King is really the <em>opposite</em> of the Anti-King, if anything. Actually, it looks to me that you have the combination of two conditions here: <ul> <p><li><u>Condition 1:</u> Is the checked piece owned by player being checked or their opponent? <p><li><u>Condition 2:</u> Is the piece checked when attacked or when not attacked? </ul><p> Thus we have the following combinations for when a player is in check or equivalent: <font size=-1> <table cellpadding=4 border> <tr> <td><i>King is</i></td><td><b>Attacked?</b></td><td><b>Not Attacked?</b></td> </tr><tr> <td><b>Owned by Self?</b></td><td>Orthochess King</td><td>Anti-King</td> </tr><tr> <td><b>Owned by Opponent?</b></td><td>Contramatic King</td><td>Anticheckmate King</td> </tr> </table> </font> <p> (The Anticheckmate King is from Anticheckmate chess, which Ralph Betza discussed in the comment system, and shows up as the Prisoner in <b>Prisoner's Escape</b>.)

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