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Two Large Shatranj Variants. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Oct 6, 2005 07:03 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
You asked for names for compound pieces. Well one of them is known by
several names, and I have proposed some for others. Here are the names
with the basic reasoning behind them. For more details of each group see
my piece articles Constitutional Characters, The Heavy Brigade, and
Diverse Directions respectively.
	The capturable piece moving like a King is known variously as a Guard,
Mann (a German word meaning, in this context, henchman), or Prince. The
last is my preferred name for it, as part of a larger pattern of royal
names for orthogonal+diagonal, ducal for orthogonal+triagonal, and
imperial for all three.
	For pieces mixing one-step and two-step radial components I have
proposed
extrapolating from the Waffle (Wazir+Alfil) and the all-two-step Alibaba
(Alfil+Dabbaba): Wazir+Dabbaba=Wazbaba, Ferz+Alfil=Fearful, and for the
record Ferz+Dabbaba=Fezbaba. These names have the disadvantage of being
too abstract for some tastes.
	For pieces with a Knight move I have proposed Knight+Wazir=Marshlander
(a
punning name for a short-range version of the Marshal),
Knight+Ferz=Cardilander (a similarly suffixed Cardinal),
Knight+Alfil=Kangaroo (from Timothy Newton's Outback Chess), and most
contentiously Knight+Dabbaba=Carpenter (a name alluding to the
manufacture
of war engines and toy horses, and to a Lewis Carroll character).