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Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2023 02:28 PM UTC:

OK, clearly the "Mann/Menn" pun fell flat. (Interlinguistic puns tend to do so, but I thought I'd try.) I'll make it Man/Men.

I don't really understand what's the point behind this if it is not in SVG. I made my own designs in PNG initially, and then manually converted them to SVG with appropriate changes.

I've tried batch-converting SVGs from some of these, and the results were disappointing at best and disastrous at worst. And doing that manually? There are over 500, and only a relative few are already available as SVG.

Note that Motif is available as SVG ( http://chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/svg/motif/ ), and Magnetic and xboard as well. It appears you have copied the Motif pieces that are not anti-aliased, and it should be possible to get much better images. Especially since it appears you are using converted images collected in your own directory, it seems advisable to convert the SVG rather than the deprecated GIF images.

I hadn't really looked at the Magnetic set; I tried converting the XBoard set from the GIFs, and the results were horrible. That said, I wasn't even aware that there were SVG images available here, other than the basic Alfaerie. I'll need to grab those, and make a whole new page for them.

(I'd replace the images here, but I've had issues with trying to replace files with new files of the same name; the old ones stay around for some reason. And no, flushing my cache, or even clearing it out completely, doesn't change things. Also, my facility for editing them into my own creations -- such as most of the QBRM table -- is, to say the least, quite lacking.)

I don't think it is a good idea to mention the Alfaerie Champion icon as a possible representation of RN. If you are going to show every icon corresponding to a name that was given to a piece moving in a particular way, things would completely get out of hand. Nowadays the name Champion is strongly associated with the Omega Chess WAD, and using it for RN would only cause confusion. Similarly, I would not use the Alferie Princess icon for a BN. Note that Utrecht has a (rather awkward) KnightBishop icon that on this website is often used for the BN. Is there really anyone that uses the Utrecht Angel icon for a QN? Utrecht does have a good icon for RN, which you omitted.

Right now I'm just putting all possibilities.

I need to find that Utrecht Knight-Bishop and Knight-Rook; I'm surprised that I don't have those in hand.

I prefer the name Commoner, though.

I haven't yet put up the listing of alternate names for the Man piece, which will go in the same section and also include Guard, Fool, and (though it lacks its own icon) Sage.


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