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Multipath Chess Pieces. Suggests adding "multi-path" pieces to leapers and riders classification of pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Nov 22, 2004 08:07 AM UTC:Good ★★★★Billiard Bishops can sometimes be multi-path, depending on the nature of the bounce and how many edges it applies to. Another group of multi-path pieces, at least as regards their even moves, includes the Crooked Bishop, Crooked Rook, and their compounds with each other and with straight riders.
CVP has Billiards Progressive Chess link that shows Gilman is right that, as Queen can be double-pathed off one bounce (to certain squares), both Bishop and Q qualify off two or three reflections as dual-pathed. For Betza's Rose too, I think however return all the way to departure square after full circuit is better dis-allowed, though not a null move since they may be blocked. Thanks for suggestion of Crooked Bishop for follow-up, 'Multipath' being more general category than 'Leaper' or 'Rider' and having countless examples. http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/DefiningtheAbstract.shtml http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSpartnershipcha
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