Comments by CharlesGilman

Well that's a considerable critque of Man and Beast. Many of the names do indeed date from before I knew as many existing usages as I do now, and I try to bear stability in mind over so comprehensive a list. Thus I shelved the Bolyar extrapolations with Ajax ones becausde teh latter looked a lot more accessible, but I would not want to that too frequently or with too large a group of pieces. I am currently considering how replacing Kinbaba with the pre-existing Pasha of which I recently read might be reflected in replacing similarly abstract names. Its distinguishing feature seems to be that it has one-step and two-steps moves in exactly the same the direction. On this basis I could clear out Kinchick, Dudbuck, Dimp, Barlock, Battler, Arcbuck, and Aimplala if I can find enough Pasha-themed names.
	Regarding reuse of names, many names have been used in multiple ways quite outside any ideas of mine, I have to decide which is the most useful. For eample the Raumschach usage for Unicorn us quoted far more widely than the same uses for any square-board piece. Therefore it makes sense to ignore the usages that has not gained popularity - in games rather than problems - and I see no problem of doing the same even where there is no popular usage at all. Thus no piece is widely known as a Pegasus so I suggest it for a Bent piece. Where a name is in wide use for a piece but does not inspire me - Centaur, Lance - I avoid reusing it for another piece.
	Regarding obscure and untranslateable names, this is true of some of the less widely-used pieces. However all the names in the first page are straightforward names. Likewise most of the Divergent ones, ebven if some are inspired by compound words like Pawnbroker which are unlikely to work in other languages. Many of my puns are merely extrapolations from pre-existing puns such as Sexton, Waffle, and Alibaba and I have tried to make a many as possible meaningful words even if the pun is lost in translation. It was as for reasons of translation that I dropped using Dame for a hex-prism-specific piece, but when names translate so patchily even among the FIDE pieces this can only be so big a factor. Some prefixed words will survive translation - Silverbishop could certainly translate into German as Silberlaufer.

My thoughts on the Pasha and offshoots is starting to take shape. I've taken the basis that while two or even three components can make do with a composite name in the Alibaba and Waffle mould, four is stretching it a bit. In particular a one- and two-step move in each of two directions deserves something more distinctive. Looking at the names that seemed to fit the theme I found that 6 were men of substantial temporal power, 3 men of primarily religious power, and 1 with not much official power at all. So I decided to give the first 6 to pieces with orthogonal moves, the next 34 to pieces with no orthogonal but some root-2 diagonal moves, ad the last to one with neither. This is what I have devised so far, describing each piece as coprime plus non-coprime. Some pieces have six simple components and are marked *. The square board has of course only Prince+Alibaba=PASHA. Both cubic and hex boards have Duke+Dybbuk=SHEIKH - so let's see the /honeycomb update posted! Cubic boards further add Baron+Elk=IMAM, and Archduke+Alibuck=SULTAN*. For hex-prism pieces I reserve names that are more obscure or specialised. These include Marquis+Dadaist=EFFENDI, Landlord+Alderman=MULLAH, Bellman+Frunkard=DRAGOMAN, Premier+Addax=EMIR*, Revolutionary+Dadbuck=KHAN*, and Loyalist+Oldbuck=AYATOLLAH*. In the Man and Beast series the first 4 would displace Kinbaba/Dubbuck/Barlock/Embuck here, and the rest even more obscure names here. These names would then be a springboard for prefixing to name pieces adding still further one- or two-step moves.

Now before I go ahead I need to sort out what to call their forward-only versions. It would be doing only half the job if a forward-only Sultan remained a Kinchick! I have a provisional idea for a series of names all starting with Co but forming real words (the likes of Companion and Confidant), but have yet to settle on a final list, so I would be happy to read any alternative ideas. If anyone cxan rthink of an improvement for my ten names for the symmetric pieces I would also be open to suggestions.

So now I am looking to moving the less illustrious titles to the FO pieces, so... please help me! While I have now thought of of yet another title to add to the collection - Mogul - that still gives only twelve names for twenty pieces, so I need a lot more! Thoughts of piece names, and even which of the twenty pieces they suit (remembering that Prince+Alibaba=Pasha is fixed).

Although 'altogether' would be spelled correctly it wouldn't be the correct word for the context. What is required is a space, so that it reads as two words - 'all together'.
	Of course if the page is up for this kind of criticism I could point out that Pawns do not promote. Players promote, and their Pawns are promoted.

Or what about a version of Chessgi or Bishogi or the like in which the
array is still FIDE but Rooks return from capture as Wazirs, Bishops as
Ferzes, Queens as Princes, Knights as Nightriders, Pawns as Pawnriders -
and vice versa in all cases?