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Obento Chess. 12x12 Chess variant with Shogi-style promotions and bent sliding pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Fri, Jun 2, 2023 03:45 PM UTC:

Thanks to HG who pointed me that Gold and Silver Riders are borrowed from Maka Dai Dai Shogi, as Free Gold and Silver. Something I had lost from sight. Corrected here now.

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2023 05:59 AM UTC:

is there anything I should do now for this page?

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 06:34 AM UTC in reply to Bn Em from 12:31 AM:

yes dozenal is a neologism, but I wish to keep it here as I have used it before in several of my variants presented in CVP too. We even have a tag called dozenal. OK for the other changes made by Fergus, thanks.

Thanks to Bn for the informations I didn't have on the Pashtuns. I didn't know where Eric had found these names. I have added these credits.

Bn Em wrote on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:31 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Mon Mar 13 09:20 PM:

dozenal is a neologism in this context. On looking up the word, it describes numbers in base 12, which is not what is meant

‘Decimal’ is also often used to describe 10×10 variants, even though outwith chess‐variant circles it also seems to refer only to base‐10 numbers. Imo in this context the extension to ‘dozenal’ is reasonably clear

Speaking of neologisms, might it be worth crediting Charles Gilman for the names of the Gold/Silver Pashtuns? They are defined in Long‐Nosed Generals and used in Pashtun Shogi (Though the Silver pashtun predates those names as the Great Elephant of White Elephant Chess). The names of the Riders may or may not also be original to Gilman (M&B 4).

Idk about the other pieces; Marquis seems to be from King's Scirocco, and Caliph is common to both Gilman and John William Brown (in Meta‐Chess); The likes of Snaketongue and Wizard have credits given already

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Mar 13, 2023 09:20 PM UTC:

I changed the links to Ai Ai to our link page for it, and I changed tens to dozens, as we don't normally speak of tens of something in English, but we will speak of dozens, and the numbers are close enough together that dozens is likely to be true.

However, dozenal is a neologism in this context. On looking up the word, it describes numbers in base 12, which is not what is meant. I would suggest replacing it.

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Mar 13, 2023 08:28 PM UTC:

I believe this page is ready for publication now. Eric S has reviewed it too. Tell me if I need to change anything.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2023 10:53 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 08:56 PM:

I have assigned you as the author of this page. So, you should be able to edit it now. Let me know if you have any trouble with this.

💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2023 08:56 PM UTC:

@Fergus, HG, Greg

I'm volunteer to write the page for Obento Chess, a game created by Eric Silverman with my cooperation. I have sent you an e-mail about this with a proposal. Please check it out and answer me. Thank you.