Threeleaper
A threeleaper or trébuchet is a fairy chess piece that jumps three squares orthogonally (the directions a chess rook can move), leaping over any intermediate piece. Below, it is given the symbol H from Betza notation.
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
| 8 |    | 8 | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
The threeleaper jumps three squares orthogonally, leaping over intermediate pieces.
Value
The threeleaper by itself is not much more powerful than a pawn, but as an additional power to other pieces it is worth about half a knight. Its value as a piece by itself is severely compromised by its being only being able to reach a ninth of the squares on any size of chessboard; combining it with other pieces usually masks this weakness to some extent.
gollark: It's very secure.
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gollark: Make it continuously ping osmarks.net so you know what it's up to.
gollark: Routers can do this.
gollark: Or give it a static IP, even?!
References
- Ideal and Practical Values (part 4): Odds and Ends by Ralph Betza, The Chess Variant Pages
- Augmented [Different] Knights by Ralph Betza, The Chess Variant Pages
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