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All the King's MenAn article on pieces . Page describing variant chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Tue, Jul 8, 2008 06:35 PM UTC:
Okay 'C's. ''Caissa'' is Chess poem by William James in 18th century, the time of Philidor and Kempelen's chess-playing Turk, copying techniques of medieaval chess moralities by Vida and others. 1930's book by Dawson is 'Caissa's Wild Roses'. Probably Bishop preceded Camel by a century. Dawson's column was in mainstream British Chess Magazine until death in 1951.  Cannon is Pao, Xiangqi Knight is Mao, Knight going one diagonal one orthogonal instead is Moa. Notice the name J.P. Boyer under ''Circean piece'': Boyer and Betza have the most games in Pritchard's 1994 'ECV'. ''Clockwork Mouse'' is not fully explained but would be related to  Fourriere's Windmill in Pocket Polypiece, invented by Alexandre Muniz for 'Royal Standard' in 1997 here. Contra-hopper will come up under 'H' about all the Hoppers.
Gilman follows earlier names Commuter(4,4), Tripper(3,3) etc. so far as I have noticed, motivated to respect his countryman's catalogue.
CVPage uses ''compound'' more for synonymous combination piece.
Cylindrical Chess is one of top ten played at Brainking.