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Greg Strong wrote on Wed, May 22, 2019 12:15 PM UTC:

Excellent.  I'm glad you're on board.  And I did, indeed, use X for the Phoenix.  I think I used S for Short Rook also if memory serves.  I have to head to work so I don't have time go into too much detail about what I chose and why right now.  My goal was to not invent names myself any more than absolutely necessary - I used existing naming wherever I could find one.

Funny you mention "an important cleric" for the BD.  The name I have been using is "Cleric".  This is a case where I was not aware of any existing name and Cleric was a nice medieval name that hadn't been used.  For FAD I used "War Elephant" - the piece is an elephant crossed with a dabbabah (war machine.)  I didn't invent that, but I don't remember exactly from where it came.  I think Joe Joyce may have come up with that originally.  The Fibnif, I used "Narrow Knight".  This just seemed obvious and similar to Charging Rook and Charging Knight, who's names I didn't feel needed changing.  The HFD is the "Lion".  This was originaly used by David Paulowich in his games and I followed his lead in my games (Opulent Chess and Hubbub.) This is one of my favorite variant pieces.  Yes, the Lion has a different meaning in Chu Shogi, but that piece is pretty different and wasn't really used in conventional chess variants.  You have since used it in Elven Chess with a different name, but that was long after.  David used this name about 15 years ago.  Then there's the BD.  I have been using "Bowman" but I was never all that happy with this one.  It came from Compton Medieval Chess, which was the only existing use of the piece I could find, but this game is extrememly obscure and the name didn't really seem to match the piece.  Tower is probably a better name and I'm happy to change.


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