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Bn Em wrote on Sun, Feb 14, 2021 09:18 PM UTC:

I suspected the naming would be the most immediately controversial part of this :) The ‘angry’ in ‘angryph’, even if only in written form, is a bit unfortunate — I suppose one could compromise with ‘angriph’, though griphon/griphin is completely unsttested afaik and imo looks a bit odd.

I share only weakly the reservations regarding Aanca as the primary name for the page (H. G.'s point about Alfil is imo a valid one, and even more pronounced in the case of our Queen, which is still Ferz in Russian and Wazir in Arabic iirc); in any case, given its wide use, it is, as mentioned in the notes, probably worth having at least as an alias link.

The problem with both Manticore and Alicorn, from the perspertive of a Piecelopedia submission, is that both are afaik completely without precedent in actual games: on that account Aanca wins outright, with Rhino and Spider somewhere behind.

My own reservation with angryph — and H. G.'s suggestion of using the ‘gryph‐’ root generally for bent riders, is that it suggests that the (ferz‐then‐rook) gryphon is somehow more primary, which is true neither mathematically nor historically — it just happened to have a name commonly established first. Though apparently it may be etymologically connected with ‘cherub’, so that may be an option for future usage (though still perhaps not for this page aþm) — ‘angel’ even starts with A (though M&B09 uses it for ferz‐then‐dabbabarider, David Paulowich's ‘Spotted Gryphon’ — there's no winning this, is there??︎)

The name suggestions for the ski‐ and lame versions, while perhaps somewhat interesting (though I'm less interested in nomenclature myself), are imo a little beside the point: as far as I'm concerned the discussion is about the title of the page as a whole, and thus the name of the main piece described on it.

I've added the note about mating potential to the paragraph on colourswitching.

@Jean‐Louis: My apologies for the orthographical error. One of those occasions where a basic familiarity with spoken French did not work in my favour :)


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