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Jörg Knappen wrote on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:10 PM UTC:

Here are a few additions sourced from:

Hans Gruber: MÃ¤rchenschachlexikon, Schwalbe - Deutsche Vereinigung fÃ¼r Problemschach, zuletzt aktualisiert am 26.08.2011,
http://www.dieschwalbe.de/lexikon.htm

The source contains tons of information on fairy problem conditions and some pieces. Most of them are outside the scope of the Concise Guide to Chess Variants, but I propose the following additions:

Piece names

ibis - elemental piece, (1,5)-leaper

lancer - elemental piece, (2,4)-leaper
    Note: This piece has a different german name, Hase (engl. hare)

okapi - compound leaper (1,2)+(2,3)


Note. If the charset is mangled, then: Ã¤ ist ae (a-umlaut) and Ã¼ ist ue (u-umlaut)

Jörg Knappen wrote on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:59 PM UTC:

Here's a first pack of additions, all from the following new source:


George Jelliss: Theory of Moves, Knight's Tour Notes 2001,
http://www.ktn.freeuk.com/9a.htm

Notes are mine and introduced by the tag Note:

Piece Names

caliph  - compound leaper (0,1)+(2,2)
          Note: This is different from Charles Gilman's caliph
          Note: synonyms are waffle (CwdA) and phoenix (large Shogi variants)

diamond - compound leaper (1,1)+(0,2)
          Note: synonyms for this piece are duke and kylin

emperor - compound leaper (0,1)+(1,2)
          Note: a synonym is marquis (Derzhanski's list drawing from Adrian  King)

ferfil - compound leaper (1,1)+(2,2)
         Note: most established synonym on the CVP is 'modern elephant'

frog - compound leaper (1,1)+(0,3). The simplest amphibian.

hospitaler - compound leaper (1,2)+(2,2)

prince - compound leaper (1,1)+(1,2)

pterodactyl - compound leaper (3,3)+(5,5)+(0,15). The simplest triple range amphibian
    Note: I love this piece *because* it is so 'over the top'

templar - compound leaper (0,2)+(1,2)

wazaba - compound leaper (0,1)+(0,2)
         Note: synonym woody rook (CwdA)

Piece terms

amphibian - A compound leaper who can reach any square on the chess board whose components aren't free leapers 

free leaper - A leaper that can reach any square on a given board. On the standard 8x8 board there are 5 free leapers: wazir, knight, giraffe, zebra, and antelope.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, Jan 4, 2012 04:55 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

very nice

📝David Howe wrote on Sun, Jan 1, 2012 03:35 PM UTC:

Thank you. I used an Excel spreadsheet in combination with MS-Word mail merge to generate the web pages and index. As you might imagine, collecting, editing and generating the results took many months. After realizing that I could be working on this for years, I decided to just stop and get it out there.

Now I will be collecting suggested additions and modifications in preparation for the next version. Thanks for any feedback you can provide and Happy New Year to all!

Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Dec 31, 2011 08:24 AM UTC:

As you ask for others I can suggest adding the Gazelle, which is Knight+Zebra and was named in conjunction with the Gnu, Bison, and Buffalo. I would also suggest some mention of the name Steward, which I had the impression was more widely used than Fusilier for a Wazir capturing only as a Ferz.

Derek Nalls wrote on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 03:50 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Superb organization and presentation of a lot of material. It must have taken you a long time.

📝David Howe wrote on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 12:47 PM UTC:

Thanks for the kind words. I'm sure the guide has many errors, and I'll be working on collecting them over the next few months so they can be corrected in the next version. I also plan on adding more to the guide, so if anyone has suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!

Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 03:22 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

David, that's a aice X-mas present for all of us!

There is one minor poiint I want to correct (it is not your fault; already Jeliss has this particular sentence wrong):

>null piece (Exotic): n. Piece that, combined with any other piece leaves it unaltered = Dummy = (0,0) leaper. Not the same as zero. Link(s): All the King's Men. [index] Source(s): [ATKM] Unique ID: [CVT-10825]

A dummy is a piece without any move; as a leaper it is an \emptyset-leaper, not a (0,0)-leaper. A (0,0)-leaper has one move to its starting square, essentially the piece-bound licence to pass a move.

This is always confounding to see that zero is something different from the emptyset.

Charles Gilman wrote on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 07:56 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

This must be the best list of Chess and Chess variant terms that I have yet seen.

John Lawson wrote on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 03:06 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Wow!