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Note that you can paste your Diagram in the PTA, and press the Piece Table button to get the HTML for a piece table including images and textual move descriptions, like the one I put in my 'Demotion' submission. The table there was entirely generated in this way, as all pieces were sliders, leapers or compounds of those. For more complex pieces the generated descriptions might not be perfect, and need some hand editing. But usually there aren't many of those, and what it generates for them might still be partly usable.

(Flush the browser cache first, though.)

I tried it for your variant, and it produced thefollowing:

	hussar	makes a lame (1,2) leap via the (0,1) square, or steps one square straight backward or sideways
	lancer	makes a lame (1,2) leap via the (0,1) square, or steps one square diagonally backward
	equesrex	steps one square in all 8 directions, or makes a knight's jump
	camel-queen	makes a (3,1) leap, or slides in all 8 directions
	striped-gryphon	steps one square diagonally and from there can continue to slide orthogonally outward, or makes a (3,2) leap
	cobra-manticore	makes a knight's jump, slides up to 2 squares orthogonally, or jumps to the 2nd square orthogonally if that is empty and from there must continue to slide diagonally outward
	paladin	slides diagonally, or makes a knight's jump up to 2 times in the same direction
	zebra-nightrider	repeatedly makes a knight's jump in the same direction, or makes a (3,2) leap
	marshall	slides orthogonally, or makes a knight's jump up to 2 times in the same direction
	assasin	makes a (3,1) leap, or makes a (4,3) leap
	ninja	jumps to the 3rd or 4th square diagonally, or makes a (4,1) leap
	lightcannon	slides orthogonally to an empty square, or jumps over the nearest piece orthogonally for capturing only
	heavycannon	jumps over the nearest piece orthogonally, or jumps over the nearest piece straight ahead for capturing only
	mammoth	steps one square in all 8 directions, jumps to the 2nd square diagonally, jumps to the 2nd square orthogonally, jumps to the 3rd square orthogonally to an empty square, or jumps to the 3rd square diagonally to an empty square

The Heavy Cannon obviously confuses it, while it could have been smarter contracting the descriptions of the Mammoth (But the latter would have sounded better if the XBetza had described it as KSmT.) And it sometimes ignores that the piece is not fully symmetric.