Diagrammatic Pieces define the pieces moves on the item itself. This removes the need to memorize the moveset to the symbol needed in many forms of chess
Western Chess - Maple Landmark
Wooden Pieces with the moves written on the bottom (so you have to lift them up to see)
Maple Landmark Image
Japanese Chess - Dobutsu Shogi (in the greenwood)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōbutsu_shōgi
Cute animals with the moves indicated by dots around the edge of the piece, probably the best diagrammatic set I’ve seen
Dobutsu shogi image
Japanese Chess - Kumon Study Shogi set
Very similiar to dobutsu shogi, but with the original character written in the middle instead of a cute animal. The wood feels good in the hand
Study Shogi image
Eastern chess sets will often have “westernized” pieces, that are different non-language characters symbols, but still require people to memorize a symbol lookup table.
I’d love to find diagrammatic options for Chinese Chess (XongQi), but I haven’t seen any - do you know of options?
How can I have this conversation without making it sound like a advertisement? I’m not trying to drive sales of anything, which would be kinda impossible given most of this stuff is out of print.
I’m just trying to illustrate diagrammatic chess options I’m aware of, and I want to find more. It’s a very niche area. Finding more options is hard.
I would hope by this point you would recognize me (you have voted on 259 of my posts and comments) and realize I’m not some bot.
Hhahaha you put way too much effort in describing your examples and putting them in a nice presentation, that’s why looks like an ad, hahaha.
To look less like an advertisement you can explain better why you find these interesting and spend less time with the examples.
Yeah, my personal style of trying to be clear and complete has been co-opted by the modern bogeyman
Much like Michael Bolton… i was here first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY
The fact you have stats like that make me think you are absolutely a marketing sock puppet
Due to the way federation works those stats are public information, and @[email protected] appears to be an admin of their instance, so the data is even more easily to hand.
Plus on lemvotes they display the owning instance of a post/comment, and hackertalks.com is basically only me, so it’s trivial to see how many times someone interacts with me.
I’m well aware. The difference is knowing the info is there and actually using it is why I called them a sock puppet.
Fair enough, you got me, the cabal of out of print niche chess marketers has been discovered.
FWIW I recognize you, so I looked up the stats of our interactions when I saw your message to illustrate we have a shared history.
It was not even an understandable question, and you still sound like promoting something.
This were 2 hints at 2 rules of this c/
I want to know about self documenting chess pieces, I want to ask people if they know about them and where I can find them. Please help me phrase this in a understandable way.
Ok spoon feeding:
How are you? is a question.
My sister? is not. Even if I want to talk about my sister, it is not.