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Gabriel Maura is deceased only since 1980's, and Gilman is honouring his memory. Gilman acknowledges Maura's is better. It is beyond deciphering in  quick minute, but Gilman may even be saying, since I mentioned Macdonald's Omega, that: (Omega of Maura) > (Omega of Gilman) > (Omega of Canada). Far more importantly, that is how I would rate them relatively. Altogether aside from issues of plagiarism rooted in CVP's entirely-changed ethos, why is Gilman's enlargement a worsening, as he himself agrees? Because the directions, literal vectors of Delta are crisp and clear 0 degrees and 45 degrees along well-familiar radial lines. Whereas directions of Gilman's Knight and Camel are not realistically distinguishable that way in over-the-board play, if it ever occurred. Look up angles whose tangents are respectively 2 for N and 3 for Camel, 63.43 and 71.57, for difference on only 8.14 degrees. Inferiorly, Alpha and Lambda player must always and normally look at the piece symbol to tell whether it is Knight or Camel, unlike Delta. That uniqueness of one virtual piece-type is the essence of original Omega. In all his writings Gilman needs more explaining, since we do not carry many standard numbers around in our head of root this, angle that. Quickly, what is square root of 20 for (2,4) leaper? Gilman more often should remove false mystery, so we can instead dwell on tactical mechanisms, if there are any of interest, and not have to preoccupy with rules interpretations in his games. I prefer write-ups from the ground up, as if to schoolkids. Since we cannot tell  angles of 8 degrees difference apart, Gilman is changing Maura's effective mechanism.