Closed PraseodymiumSpike closed 1 year ago
Note that "hoppers" are pieces like janggi cannons or Chak Quetzals, riders are pieces like the chess queens or fairy chess nightriders, and leapers are pieces like alfils and chess knights.
This is probably too ambitious, but if you want to take this idea to its logical extreme, you could consider adding support for pieces like the Toad. The Toad is an esoteric piece I came up with yesterday. Admittedly, it does not seem to be the most practical piece to use in an actual game, but I am suggesting it because of all the other features adding it would require you to add. The Toad is an omnidirectional hopper. On a convex board, it can move to a square if and only if the following conditions are met:
Essentially, it is a Cannon from Quetzal from Chak except that instead of being limited to directions that form a 0-degree angle or 45-degree angle from the grid, it can hop in any direction that forms an angle θ with the grid such that the tangent of θ is a rational number.
This is all very complicated, but I think an image will clear things up nicely. Such an image is attached.
Here, note that the Toad is placing the Black King in Check. Also, note that it is not attacking the Black Pawn on a7 as there is no Piece on b5 for it to hop over.
Note that the Emperor, which is featured in some large shogi variants, would also fit into this category.
This is partly a duplicate of #499. The other points about atoms beyond betza for me are out of scope, so I am closing this.
It would be really nice if you could add the following things: