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Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Mar 6, 2012 04:12 PM UTC:

As for end-game abilities:

Frog, Toad and Newt can all mate in combination with the Modern Elephant, as can a pair of (unlike) Modern Elephants. (The Elephants have the magic property, to be able to go from c1 to a1 in 3 moves.) They all draw against a Rook. (But Modern Elephant loses!)

A pair of Frogs or Toads can force checkmate, but a pair of Newts can't! (The Newt cannot go from c1 to a1 in 3 moves, and that it can go from c1 to b1 does help in combination with the Modern Elephant, which can fork a1, c1, but not in combination with another Newt.)

Btw, in contrast to what I wrote earlier, Banshee vs Rook is mostly won. The wtm win rate is only 97%, though, which is unusually low for a generally won end-game with such strong pieces (KQ.KR is 99.4%). But perhaps this is simply due to the large number of forks and skewers that a Rook can give on a Banshee (where with Q skewers only work when Q is behinf K, and forks don't work at all).