Interesting question. I know folks actually believed unicorns existed in those days. Don't know if they bothered putting one in a chess set or not, though.
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I read that there is an extra piece in 3D chess called the Unicorn.
His movements are somewhat like a King's!!!
So, basically worthless?
probably lame, better to check it out.
May 11, 2015
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Unicorns are generally known to refuse all kind of military service.
Since chess is a game of war (its original name chaturanga is a synonym for army), we can safely dismiss the theory of unicorns in early chess.
And what's that 3D chess nonsense? Everybody knows that the world is flat.
aw jeeez.
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There were Unicorns in Afghanistan performing military service, or perhaps it was Iraq. They were Dutch military.
we gather here today to give our final respects to the unicorn thread.
Ramona-Carbona == Allegretta?? Ask because Allegretta deleted the comment about Unicorns not being in the Military and Ramona taking the Mickey.
your doctor could help hopefully.
? ok? - but what happened was that I was writing a comment about the movement
of the Unicorn in a 3D chess variation where it moves through the 3D diagonals, but I realized that I didn't understand what I meant so I
just said that the Unicorn movement was more complicated than the
King's, to reply to AlCzervik, but by the time the comnment appeared
comments about the Military had started to appear, and my comment didn't follow,
so rather than be misconstrued, I deleted it. hope this comment's
not confusing!!!!
Confusing? Unicorns and military are one and the same thing! Really!
A quick look on wikipedia, in the fairy chess pieces page, seems to suggest that out of the many variants of fairy (2d) chess - a unicorn is sometimes taken to be a knight/bishop hybrid of sorts (akin to a princess); so quite a powerful piece :). (Particularly when it is given the additional property of extended knight jumps in a fixed direction.)
And; in the 3d-variant, it just moves like a bishop - but only one square per level before it has to ascend/descend to the next. (ie. triagonal movement)
May 12, 2015
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Many armies used Unicorns to play revellie. That is because they alreay had horns!!
wow! I diddin no dat!
O yeah thats alsome people are seeing Unicorns at the chess board. You guys must of been drinking or smoking something very strong. Righteous!
Unicorns used in place of knights could best be called punicorns, cos they wouldn't really be all that big and would also have lost the mystery that surrounds them given that some people are under the impression that they didn't even exist! I mean you got people complaining about knights being called horses when the knights aren't even on the horse or anywhere to be seen for that matter.
I was wondering if anyone knew if the Knight, in early chess
games, ever was seen as a unicorn rather than a horse? I guess there have been imaginative chess boards designed that way, but I wonder about medieval boards.