Talk:Grasshopper (chess)

The Most Popular[edit]

The main article for Fairy Chess Pieces listed the "nightrider" as the most popular fairy chess piece, while this article claimed that destination to go to it's subject, the "grasshopper." I have changed both references to "one of the most popular," and suggest that in the future anybody who wishes to claim a certain piece as being the most popular cite their facts accordingly. Rudy Breteler (talk) 21:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, this can be checked and backed by facts quite easily. The database of chess problems, WinChloe, has as a part probably the largest database of fairy chess problems. It is possible to filter out problems featuring any fairy piece and count them. Based on my experience, grasshopper and nightrider are by far the most frequent (i.e. popular) fairy pieces... I can do this count later, with database at hand. --Ruziklan (talk) 10:46, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The importance must be fixed[edit]

Fairy chess piece has low importance, yet this Grasshopper (a sub-element of Fairy Chess Piece) has mid importance. This makes little sense. 89.76.218.139 (talk) 12:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

True. I have changed the importance to Low. SyG (talk) 18:10, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Betza notation[edit]

Under Betza notation, the grasshopper is a pQ, notation (pQ). Double sharp (talk) 13:25, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. That should be gQ, notation (gQ). A pQ would be similar, but would not need to jump to the square just after the hurdle, so with pQ at h8 and a piece at d4, (pQ)c3, (pQ)b2, and (pQ)a1 are all legal (and are its only legal moves). Double sharp (talk) 07:26, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Value[edit]

What's the value of grasshopper? 2A01:119F:251:9000:3044:5AA8:3B70:D88 (talk) 07:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cute icons[edit]

Here and elsewhere, the cute icons ... They aren't "typical" unless you can find a source which says as much. (Can you even find one example in a chess variants publication where these have been used?) Also placement as lead image does not match the importance or value of the images. (In fact I don't think they belong in any article. Even the mann icons worked on recently. Where did these come from? Never seen them in any chess variant literature.) --IHTS (talk) 15:29, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Example problem[edit]

I think the problem is supposed to start with "White to move" and should say "White mates in 8". --2A02:908:4B11:8820:6D4B:ED56:C487:906C (talk) 03:53, 19 December 2022 (UTC)2A02:908:4B11:8820:6D4B:ED56:C487:906C[reply]