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Chancellor. Moves like rook or as knight.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Tony Paletta wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 02:54 PM UTC:

It seems to me that there are only two ways to name the B+N and R+N: either
they are the Princess (B+N) and Empress (R+N) or they are whatever you
want to call them in your CV. 

My reasons? There is a well-established group of dedicated problemists --
many active for decades -- who adopted the Princess/Empress convention
long before this web site was started. While I'm not a problemist, I
respect their efforts: adopting different names as the preferred choices
seems arrogant, insulting and needlessly confusing.

While I have no objection to a 'grandfather rule' that would allow
existing CVs to keep whatever name the author chose, I think we should
(gently?) nudge contributors toward the problemist's standard, since
different names for the same off-the-shelf fairy chess pieces (Camels,
Zebras, etc.)usually makes no sense.