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Constabulary Chess. Chess on an 8x10 board with compound piece types added. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Thu, May 9 02:53 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from Sun May 5 11:41 PM:

I did notice some 3 English 'words' in 1 that are nouns that Gilman coined, especially in his second section with words beginning with C (towards the end of that section).

You mean the likes of ‘Coviewingspot’/‘Cowingnut’/‘Coworkload’? Maybe I'm counting differently (I wouldn't tend to count prefixes like ‘co‐’ which are part of most names on that page specifically, otherwise ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism’ (at least 6 segments — and in fact a noun!) would carry precedent; hence I wouldn't really consider ‘counterclockwise’ an example either) but I still only consider those two‐part compounds at heart. Which leaves the likes of ‘Coupandup’ which might be the only true 3‐part compound (plus suffix for 4) on the page as far as I could tell, but still isn't really a noun as such. And really shows the desperation of finding unique names for such a wide range of pieces (and in particular the many possible 3D leaper compounds which are unlikely to see practical use)

Please let me know sooner or later if I should do name editing all the same

If you've since found a name you like acceptably well in comparison to WMW that'd probably be best; if you still strongly prefer WMW I'll leave it at that and publish at least those four (and the others, failing some other major oversight)