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The Heavy Brigade. Naming of leaping pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]In spirit of TREBUCHET, Underwood in 1877 US Patent #186,181 calls the orthogonal three-square leaper 'Cavalry', and Michael King in 1995 US Patent #5484157 calls it 'Large Tank'. This article fails to name 'Knight-Trebuchet' compound. That one should be the most useful, being colour-changing for counterbalance with colour-bound CAMERZ(Camel+Ferz).
Charles Gilman wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 08:34 AM UTC:My next article but one will deal with pieces that are part radial and part oblique. You have however reminded me of one compound that should perhaps be included above: Ferz+Trebouchet, which I have read about under the name Frog. This combines two bound pieces into one unbound one like the Rosette - and like the Baron, Governor, Heretic, and Moderator of Constituional Characters.
'Wizard' of Omega Chess is the (Camel+Ferz=CAMERZ,for one coinage)and goes logically for design with yet unnamed(TREBUCHET+Knight). In Encyclopaedia Chess Variants (1994) p. 227 under 'Pieces', the seven-by-seven schematic leaves only (0,3) and (3,3) squares unnamed. For (0,3) not strictly never named (since 1877 US Patent 186181 calls it Cavalry) Trebuchet is fittingly military to go with more recent use of Large Tank in 1994 USP 5484157.
Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 08:14 AM UTC:After further thought I have thought of an idea for naming an n:m-n leaper for all n from 0 to m inclusive, where the name exists for n between 0 and m exclusive: prefix with End- meaning the end of the formula's range. It is inspired by my suggestion of Gamewarden for Zebra+Giraffe, making Zebra+Giraffe+Quibbler for m=5 an ENDGAMEWARDEN! This would make Knight+Trebuchet ENDKNIGHT for m=3 and Caribou(Camel+Elephant)+Cobbler ENDCARIBOU for m=4.
Since posting this page I have adopted or devised other names for further part-coprime pieces. Ferz+Trebuchet had the existing name Frog. For others I suggest Wazir+Tripper=WAPPER, Dabbaba+Tripper=TRIBUNE, Trebuchet+Tripper=TRILBY.
A few more thoughts on names for compounds: Cannonade - Cannon that also moves triagonally Arbalest - Arrow that also moves triagonally Arsenal - Tank that also moves triagonally Bittern - Rook+Cannon Sparrow - Rook+Arrow Saint - Bishop+Cannon Megaqueen - Queen+Vinnock Megaduchess - Duchess+Fearful Megarook - Rook+Bullock Regarook - Rook+Fearful Ducarook - Rook+Vinnock Megagovernor - Governor+Wazbaba Megabishop - Bishop+Dubbuck Regabishop - Bishop+Wazbaba Barabishop - Bishop+Vinnock Meganicorn - Unicorn+Kinbaba Ducanicorn - Unicorn+Wazbaba Baranicorn - Unicorn+Fearful
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