Ratings & Comments

@HG, Indeed that has solved it. Thanks!

I find this incomprehensible. Unless this can be drastically rewritten with explanatory images, I'm inclined to delete it.

This page needs significant work. For one thing, the images need to be replaced, given that the color of some of the text is so close to the cell color you can't even see it. The descriptions also desperately need rewriting (e.g., the Knight description.) I could do it but it would probably take over an hour to get it into shape. Does anyone feel this page is worth the effort?

Wow. This page has so much on it that I'm not even going to attempt to read it. Suffice it to say that I doubt this site is the place for this. Game pages are for a concise description of how to play a game. Whatever this is, it isn't that.

Beyond that, it begins with a lot of potentially problematic legal stipulations. Unless this is totally reworked into something appropriate, I will delete it in 30 days.

@HG, ... But it has introduced another problem. Now the shuffling of pieces is not simtrical anymore :(!

This page is 100% going to crash soon due to traffic from SUSD viewers!

If someone with editing picture skills sees this, please make an zebra-bishop picture and add it instead of the plane zebra picture at z.

What are SUSD viewers?

Fergus,

No I don't have it anymore. I searched my backups but can't find it.

I sent Yu Ren Dong an email asking him if the ZRF is still available.

Use the scalable-graphics editor:

The image is a dead link and archive.org doesn't seem to have it. If you still have this image, please let me know. Otherwise, I will delete that part of the page. (It's a mate problem, not directly related to the description of the game itself.)

I don't really understand this game.  This paragraph is particularly cryptic:

Fools are forbidden to step onto a square that means that the enemy king is on a square that the fool could have reached (had it been unoccupied). On the other hand, the enemy king is forbidden to step onto a square that the fool could have reached in just one move, so the fools can contribute to mating the enemy king. The king can take out the fool, but the fool can not take out the king.

Also, the statement that "Castling is free" isn't very descriptive.  Does this mean the historic free castling rule?

And there are other confusing things as well.  If the author is around to clarify, that would be great.  If not, and someone else understands what is meant here and can help clarify this text, that would be also be fine.  If this doesn't happen in 30 days, I will hide this page.

This game is difficult to understand.

Neutral piece - can be captured only by pawns and cats and queens and kings and bishops, but using their non-capturing powers of movement

What are the non-capturing powers of movement of a queen, king, or bishop?  Am I missing something?

On fools, the paragraph seems to mean that neither fools nor kings can move such that the fool "attacks" the king. The convoluted language comes I think in part because the fool cannot capture any pieces at all, and so the author is trying to avoid the word "attacks" or its variations.

Several of this author's pages say just "castling is free," which I can only attribute to the historical rule? I haven't read all of them to see whether they elaborate somewhere.

I'm also confused about the hunter movement:

...The hunter can't jump over any agent when it's travelling either diagonally or orthogonally. When travelling purely orthogonally, the hunter can never even jump any agent located on squares of opposite color. ...

The second sentence here seems to be redundant, unless diagonal movement is supposed to allow jumping over opposite-color squares?

I wanted to add it to the apothecary chess standard piece set. The zebra is not used in any currently playing games but it is used in a preset. I have deleted the used Z,z temporarilly.