Mathematical_Recreations-Kraitchik-2e

Games 279
The centaur, which combines the moves of the bishop and
knight.
The grasshopper, which moves like the queen, except that
it must leap over a piece (of either color) and land on the cell
beyond.
Neuters, which may be played by either Black or White.
Leapers - generalizations of the knight. Leaper Ca, b)
may move from a cell (x, y) to any available cell (x+ a,
y + b), (x + b, y + a). Leaper (1, 2) is the ordinary knight.
The courser, which may make as one move as many successive
knight's moves as lie in a straight line, provided the
intervening landing points are not occupied.
The half-bishop, which moves like the bishop, but in one
diagonal direction only.
The great bishop, which extends the move of the ordinary
bishop by being allowed to move along the prolongations of
the diagonals - that is, along the broken diagonals.
3. LATRUNCULES. According to M. Becq de Fouquit~re,
the game of latruncules was played by the ancient Romans
on a chessboard. Each of the two players had two kinds of
pieces, 8 latruncules (pawns) and 8 larrons (pieces). The
latruncules were allowed to move straight ahead only, one
step at a time; but on reaching the eighth row they became
larrons. The larrons moved like our queens in chess.
One man took another as in chess, except that a latruneule,
like the king in chess, could take on all adjacent cells.
4. Go. Go was invented in China in the fourteenth century.
It is now a favorite game among educated Japanese.
The game is played on a board ruled in squares, and the
pieces are placed on the vertices. Each of the two opponents
begins with a plentiful supply of pieces, white for one side
and black for the other. The opponents play alternately,
each placing onp. piece each time. Every piece or set of pieces