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Immobilizer. Pieces standing near an immobilizer may not move.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Ken Kyllingmark wrote on Sun, Dec 5, 2010 08:11 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

The immobilizer is awesome at freezing your enemy's armies, but here's an issue which I know Robert Abbott didn't think of: If you use the immobilizer in a game which also uses shooting pieces (for example Rifle Chess), can immobilized pieces still shoot? Does anyone know how that would work?

M Winther wrote on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 05:08 PM UTC:

If you're interested in this type of paralyzing piece, then have a look on my Pyrrhus Chess. The Pyrrhus moves and captures like a king. In addition, it paralyses any enemy piece within queen-move range. It seems to be as valuable as a queen. 
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/pyrrhuschess.htm
/Mats

Gene wrote on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 07:01 PM UTC:

The sentence that begins 'The coordinator can never move...' should instead say 'The immobilizer can never move...'

MHowe wrote on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 09:49 PM UTC:

My variants Optima and Nova Chess, which once were but are no longer available on these pages, featured a basilisk that immobilized at a knight's move. So there is precedent and your piece is not a new invention. Quite a coincidence (?) that you chose the same name for the same effect. Nova Chess is still in development, but Optima is not.

Andy Maxson wrote on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 08:22 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

this piece looks intersting but has little mobility when immobilizing I
have invented a piece,
 the basilisk which moves as a queen cannot capture, but immobilizes
pieces a knight's move away.

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