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H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Oct 22, 2014 06:05 AM UTC:
Indeed, it is unfortunate that there seems to be a controversy about the name of this piece. But on chessvariants.org it is defined as Aanca, and no other name is given for it.

If it would be changed on the Betza bent-riders page (and the reference to it in Tri-Punch Chess) and Aanca would be mentioned on the Griffon page as a synonym for Griffon and appear in the Piececlopedia with its own page under another name, I would follow that. (The new name had better start with an 'A', then, because I already distributed Fairy-Max, and changing the piece ID would make previously saved game files unreadable.) It is a bit strange that Betza, who obviously read the same book, as he even refers to the very same page, would use the name for another piece.

We could of course call in Ancaa instead. It is, after all, a 45-degree rotated version of thr Gryphon, so a slight name modification (as with Mao / Moa) seems justified.

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