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To be answered, the question two months ago, What planet are you standing on watching a transit of Mars? There are CVers authoring over 30 games who have never invented a single new p-t. It may not be necessary. Contrariwise, Gilman has maybe 500 new p-t invented and named, mostly obscure, among 1000 or 2000 defined p-ts in M&Bxxs. Finally, this Suffix index and the alphabetical indexes begin some accessibility. _______________________________________ The two extended topics being developed year 2012 in parallel are Tables of Sovereign Values and Suffix Index. Sovereign Values have their own thread(s) and will become numerical over 1000 piece-types easily. The Gilman-approved Suffix Index here left off with completing '-Hopper'. Working up and down from the middle for Square geometry only, a next one to define is '-Guide'. '-Guide' is closely related to '-Dueller' and to Scout. 'Guide' is linked in the paragraph before one beginning ''Crooked pieces...'' in the Vice Squad. These three suffixes interweave: Guide, Scout and Dueller. Scout is self-explanatory and rudimentary to CVers by Boyscout and Girlscout ways of moving. -Dueller alternates between an oblique leaper and its dual, moving outwardly and reversing direction of turn each time, for example Knight and Camel in successive right angle turns, able to move 1, 2, 3, or more legs, therefore a.k.a. besides that simple longhand description, Knight-Dueller. So (K)night-Dueller is counterpart to Betzan Crooked Bishop using Knight then Camel etc. instead of alternating Ferz directions. Gilman would have to explain what significance Guide as suffix has, where Dueller seems sufficient. It appears the same Knight-Dueller that can also move as a Ferz instead is one example of a Guide-style Rider using the suffix. It may give the awkward p-t some maneuverability by added optional one-step. Guide just seems to mean that, the same basic Dueller (all the others less interesting than NightDueller switching N and Camel) moving as either Ferz or Wazir too. Suffice, no pun intended, to say that both Dueller and -Guide alternate between the oblique leaper and its dual, and -Guide has additional movement option. Rose of Betza is similar but distinct from Night-Dueller and from ''Cardi-Guide'' of Gilman. Regular Knight as like Boyscout, or Crooked Bishop, is obvious Knight-Scout or NightScout, potentially useful p-t called in 'Nachtmahr' STRAIGHT WIDE CROOKED NIGHTRIDER, become another CV re-invention now, at least this case only a few years after the fact.