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Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Mar 7, 2005 08:34 AM UTC:
Further to Jared McComb's comment (click 'all comments') some of these
pieces have also appeared, under different names and with more Shogi-like
promotion rules, in my variant Mitregi
(http://www.chessvariants.org/shogivariants.dir/mitregi.html). Your
Merchant and my Point are alternative renamings for Shogi's Foot
Soldier,
likewise your (and many other people's!) Lance and my Wing for Shogi's
Fragrant Chariot. Both are promotable to (standard Shogi) Gold General in
Mitregi as in Shogi. The diagonal equivalents in Mitregi are the Cross
and
Mitre, and are promotable to (standard Shogi except not further
promotable)
Silver General. The Wing and Mitre also appear along with the triagonal
Horn in my Tunnelshogi
(http://www.chessvariants.org/shogivariants.dir/tunnelshogi.html), the
three names representing attributes of the symmetric linepieces.
	As a matter of general interest my own suggested usages of some of the
names here are for 3d pieces. In my piece article Punning by Numbers
(http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/punning_by_numbers.html),
Ninja is the symmetric 2:2:1 leaper, Samurai is Knight+Ninja, and
Merchant
is Camel+Ninja. In When Beasts Collide
(http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/collide.html), Shogun is
a
compound of three 3d leapers. Gavin Smith's 3d variant Prince uses
Merchant for Unicorn.

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