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Icon Clearinghouse 1. A collection of chess icons for all to use in Interactive Diagrams and Game Courier setups.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2023 04:10 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:43 AM:

H. G. Muller wrote:

Nowadays the name Champion is strongly associated with the Omega Chess WAD, and using it for RN would only cause confusion.

Indeed. In fact, David Howe designed the Champion image appearing on this page for Omega Chess, and he based it on the appearance of the Champion in that game. So, that image was never intended for the piece that Carrera called a Champion.

Also, I am the person who introduced the use of the name Paladin for the Knight-Bishop compound, and I did this in Cavalier Chess, for which I mainly used the Motif pieces. I have never used the Paladin image you displayed for this piece, and I expect that image was inspired by some other piece called a Paladin in some other game. My own use of the name was inspired by AD&D, in which Paladin is a character class combining fighting man and cleric. But Gary Gygax, who invented D&D, used the name Paladin for a different piece in Dragonchess.

Similarly, I would not use the Alferie Princess icon for a BN.

Appearing as a diminutive Queen, this image was probably intended for a game in which a Princess is some weaker version of a Queen. For example, Knightmare Chess has a card introducing a Princess piece that moves as a Queen up to two spaces. The piece called a Princess in Fairy Chess literature is normally represented by combining the Knight and Bishop images together.

Is there really anyone that uses the Utrecht Angel icon for a QN?

I'm not even familiar with any game that calls this piece an Angel.