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Tony Paletta wrote on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 01:13 PM UTC:

Charles, 

Thought experiment and philosophical question.

I select a an 8x8 playing area of regular hexagons resting on their points
and arranged in the overall shape of a rhombus (let's say the major 
diagonal is NE-SW). The leftmost line of hexes can be called the
'a-file', the second (parallel) line from White's left can be called
the 'b-file', etc.; the line of hexes closest to White can be called the
'1st rank', the next parallel line the '2nd rank', etc.. 

A certain type of movement can be described as 'Wazir-like': one space
along a file or a rank. Pursuing this analogy, we can generate analogs for
all the units of standard chess and adopt analogous rules. 

A Staunton chess set is arranged so the chessmen or on the spaces with the
same labels as in standard chess (White Staunton Rook on a1). Play begins:
1 e2-e4 e7-e5; 2 g1-f3 b8-c6; 3 f1-b5 a7-a6; 4 b5-a4 g8-f6; 5 Castles ...

My question: What would be an appropriate name for the unit White moved
first?