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Index B to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter B.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Feb 7, 2011 02:44 AM UTC:

Charles Gilman wrote:

To say that anything outside the Piececlopedia violates the Piececlopedia guidelines is the height of arrogance

When I noticed the Knight icon next to your articles, it appeared to me that they had been placed in the Piececlopedia. I learned otherwise only when I went to change that. I then noticed that a new category called Piece had been added, and its icon differs only slightly from the Piececlopedia icon, which is an upside-down Knight. If this could fool me, it could easily fool other people even less familiar with the workings of this site. This underscores the need to clearly distinguish your piece pages from Piececlopedia pages. The Piececlopedia is intended as a scholarly reference on the historical usage of pieces in Chess variants, and it is important that your piece name pages not be confused with this. To this end, I would recommend the disclaimer I mentioned earlier and the use of a non-Knight icon for pages in the Piece category.

Speaking of the height of arrogance, I found something a little closer to it in a comic book I read today. The villain says to Phoenix in New X-Men, volume 1, #154 , 'With your talents and an endless army of crawlers, we will set our mark on all of creation! We will remake God in our image. And sit on thrones high above the universe.'