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Grotesque Chess. A variant of Capablanca's Chess with no unprotected Pawns. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 07:53 PM UTC:

'Thus a FEN string always should use those piece letters with a well
defined, preferable traditional meaning: this moment I suggest
J/A=Archbishop(N+B), C=Chancellor(N+R), G=General/Gladiator(N+B+R).'

I was under the impression that the most 'traditional' name for N+B+R is
Amazon. Thus it would still be able to have a good encoding using
well-known names, namely C-Cardinal, M-Marshall and A-Amazon -- seems to
me this would use names everybody in the chess variant world immediately
understands. They just don't happen to just by chance match Archangel and
Centaur ;-)