Jörg Knappen wrote on Mon, Sep 16, 2013 09:52 AM UTC:
I like the idea of circular riders moving on exact circles, and the generic
name Orbiter is a good fit. In particular, I find those orbiters
interesting that have more squares on their circle than just the minimal
number (4 for straight or diagonal distance, or 8 for skew distance).
Unfortunately most of them are much too large to play well on usual
chessbords (eben 16x16 is small for them). And it needs some training to
visualise their possible pathes. They have so many directions to go!
P.S. A less symmetric version are orbiters orbiting around the center of an
edge, the simplest variant has four squares marking a rectangle.
P.P.S. One of the orbiters (the circular King) is alreay found in Betza's
article here:
http://www.chessvariants.org/d.betza/chessvar/16x16.html
