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Charles Gilman wrote on Tue, Nov 6, 2012 07:07 AM UTC:
Those who follow my Man and Beast updates will have seen my recent addition of Tetrahedral oblique pieces with SOLLs up to 69. So far, so good. I was originally thinking of going up to 79, but have got a bit stuck since. The single SOLL-79 leaper calls for the "prime SOLL not used on rectlinear boards" rule, which is that it should have some link to honey. I wondered about Beorning, after the people whose honey-cakes Gimli so admires in LOTR, but would that be too obscure? Three new leapers shares the Huckster/Hamster SOLL of 73, but there are so few combinations of first consonant and vowel that keeping the Hamster's rodent theme is quite impossible. One of the three, the 9:8:1's dual, proves to be pure-hex. Two have a SOLL of 75, and my ideal for these would have been to reuse Petmouse along with a rodent name with first consonant and vowel N and A - which pretty well resolves to starting with Ain-, An-, Aun-, or Na- - but could not find any. I have ideas for breaking away from the rodent theme as Petmouse is not that satisfactory a name, but getting rid of that name would involve changes to Random Rodent Chess. For those of SOLLs 77 and 79 I have good ideas as suitable names already exist in other geometries - Dunnart and Sugarglider inthe first case and Mede in the second one.

Another group of pieces of interest are compounds of these new pieces. What might Tesselator+Divider, Vole+Zokor, or perhaps more urgently the relatively long-standing Guineapig+Gopher and Gopher+Grumbler be named? What about the corresponing FO compounds? If anyone wants to give this serious thought, please bear in mind the conventions for name endings.

Thinking about which geometries compounds of oblique pieces now applied to led me to a compound of a Straight and Bent piece being renamed Patriarch, and it made me wonder what, in tha case, a Matriarch should be. Looking at the names in a spreadsheet I noticed that I had yet to name the compounds Queen+Unicosheath (alias Farrieress+Patriarch), Duchess+Bishosheath (alias Ancress+Muster), and Governor+Rooksheath (alias Metropolitan+Cosmopolitan). Matriarch seems an obvious fit for the first, but what would the other two be named?


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