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Crossroads. Crossing the diagonals generate figures. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 10 05:50 AM UTC in reply to Gerd Degens from Thu May 9 04:41 PM:

The PTA shows all images there are in the Alfaerie PNG set. It has a number of pre-defined pieces, which then also define a move, and could have names different from the image name. But there exist Alfaerie images which are not associated with any particular move. Such as fortress, spider, diplomat, ninja, bear, tiger. Having no generally accepted use, these are not pre-defined, and automatically added to the table. Without move, and using the image name as piece name. It would be hard to give it any other name, as the image filename is the only thing the script can 'see'; it cannot look at or interpret the actual image. But in Alfaerie the image name is usually descriptive of the image, in case there is no move to describe.

The issue here is very much the same as with warmachinewazir. This also was an image name, in this case descriptive of the move. (or of the image, as in such cases Alfaerie images are move describing themselves.) These are not English words, and not really suitable as names.

The name commonly used to refer to a Commoner when one wants to stress it moves as K is "Non-royal King".