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There are some useful references I found while working on The Chessmen of Mars relating to Jetan, which might be used here. As this article focus is out of my area I have not reworked this article, but perhaps interested parties might look at the material in the novel article page and consider what could be used. Happy to help in any way I can here. Mesmacat ( talk) 12:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I removed the italicized sentence in the following:
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This is incorrect. See the following digram. In row 6, a knight's move is pictured: one square orthogonal, and then one square diagonal, forming a 135° angle. A thoat can indeed make this same move, landing on square # 2.
However, in row 2, an actual thoat is pictured, and a different kind of move is shown: one square orthogonal, and then one square diagonal, forming a 45° angle and landing on square # 2. A thoat can make this move, but a knight cannot.
In other words, a Thoat combines the moves of a knight and a king.
Of course, we may speculate that Burroughs did not foresee the 45° move, but the rules as stated in The Chessmen of Mars allow for it. — Lawrence King ( talk) 23:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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The text on the book lists the pieces "in order, as they stand upon the board in the first row, from left to right of each player." (sic) This means that each Chief faces the opposing Princess, not the opposing Chief. I updated the text because the Chief should be at the left of the Princess. The diagram ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jetan_Board.svg) should also be updated because the Chief and the Princess at the top are switched. Yibup ( talk) 17:14, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Fredrik Ekman (referenced in the footnotes) published a comprehensive book devoted to Jetan, including detailed history of the origin, references in the media, rules, variants and sample games. I couldn't figure out how to include it without tying it specifically to the article text; perhaps someone could do it Anyway, the details are:
Jetan: The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs Fredrik Ekman Format: softcover (7 x 10) Pages: 211 Bibliographic Info: 149 illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index Copyright Date: 2022 pISBN: 978-1-4766-8793-3 eISBN: 978-1-4766-4761-6 Imprint: McFarland
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There are some useful references I found while working on The Chessmen of Mars relating to Jetan, which might be used here. As this article focus is out of my area I have not reworked this article, but perhaps interested parties might look at the material in the novel article page and consider what could be used. Happy to help in any way I can here. Mesmacat ( talk) 12:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I removed the italicized sentence in the following:
a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
8 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | |||||||
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a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h |
This is incorrect. See the following digram. In row 6, a knight's move is pictured: one square orthogonal, and then one square diagonal, forming a 135° angle. A thoat can indeed make this same move, landing on square # 2.
However, in row 2, an actual thoat is pictured, and a different kind of move is shown: one square orthogonal, and then one square diagonal, forming a 45° angle and landing on square # 2. A thoat can make this move, but a knight cannot.
In other words, a Thoat combines the moves of a knight and a king.
Of course, we may speculate that Burroughs did not foresee the 45° move, but the rules as stated in The Chessmen of Mars allow for it. — Lawrence King ( talk) 23:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
The image File:Chessmen Mars.jpg is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check
This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- 07:16, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
The text on the book lists the pieces "in order, as they stand upon the board in the first row, from left to right of each player." (sic) This means that each Chief faces the opposing Princess, not the opposing Chief. I updated the text because the Chief should be at the left of the Princess. The diagram ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jetan_Board.svg) should also be updated because the Chief and the Princess at the top are switched. Yibup ( talk) 17:14, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Fredrik Ekman (referenced in the footnotes) published a comprehensive book devoted to Jetan, including detailed history of the origin, references in the media, rules, variants and sample games. I couldn't figure out how to include it without tying it specifically to the article text; perhaps someone could do it Anyway, the details are:
Jetan: The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs Fredrik Ekman Format: softcover (7 x 10) Pages: 211 Bibliographic Info: 149 illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index Copyright Date: 2022 pISBN: 978-1-4766-8793-3 eISBN: 978-1-4766-4761-6 Imprint: McFarland