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George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 21, 2017 04:47 PM UTC:

There are 9900 (100x99) variant chess pieces attained by making bi-compounds from the Name List. Two of them: William Howard Taft is Padwar plus Man, and Donald John Trump is Champion(RN) plus Camel (see last comment here). It requires assigning a piece-type according to prevalence to each of the first 100 elements in the population. Since fortuitously #100 in both listings occurs around 0.2% of the time, there is surprisingly close correspondence.

Taft, Padwar & Man, golfing: Outing; and Trump, Cam-shall golfing 100 years later: Round. Round2.

Ca-shall -- or Car-Shill or CarShell, they're all okay -- is by the Gilman nomenclature for Camel compounded of Marshall, with Marshall(RN also) being one popular Champion re-naming. In other areas of Gilman's system there is stricter distinguishment the exact form of the name, but with "Marshall" as one leg already a compound itself, there is flexibility since Gilman gives method of starting Camel compound with "Ca" but not precise name this or every case, where there could be diagram and word definition too.

Gilman Suffix_Index, as well can enhance pieces derived this way from the serviceable Name List. If using "-Lander," there is Ca-shall-Lander, or TrumpLander as one will, which piece moves like Camel or Knight but can only step one square orthogonally, not permitting second space and beyond of the full Rook mode. That is synonymous with (Wazir + N + Camel), and designers may prefer explanation by one form or the other according to context, such as what other pieces are being developed. Mathematical equivalence.