This article makes it easy to find how a piece of a given name moves. But the reverse is still very difficult. Perhaps there should be an index of some kind, where you can alphabetically look up the Betza notation, and find names that are used for a piece that moves that way.
Except that Betza notation is not really unique. So for this to work we should define some 'canonical form' of the notation, which would tell us that we would have to look for WD rather than DW. This makes purely alphabetic order perhaps less convenient; ordering primarily by atom, ignoring the modifiers and ranges might be preferable.
Anyway, these thoughts occurred to me when I was wondering whether there exist names for AH and DG, the 'expanded' versions of Kirin and Phoenix. I suppose these pieces qualify as amphibians, as the individual D, A, G and H components are severely area bound, while AH can go anywhere, and DG only has normal color binding.
This article makes it easy to find how a piece of a given name moves. But the reverse is still very difficult. Perhaps there should be an index of some kind, where you can alphabetically look up the Betza notation, and find names that are used for a piece that moves that way.
Except that Betza notation is not really unique. So for this to work we should define some 'canonical form' of the notation, which would tell us that we would have to look for WD rather than DW. This makes purely alphabetic order perhaps less convenient; ordering primarily by atom, ignoring the modifiers and ranges might be preferable.
Anyway, these thoughts occurred to me when I was wondering whether there exist names for AH and DG, the 'expanded' versions of Kirin and Phoenix. I suppose these pieces qualify as amphibians, as the individual D, A, G and H components are severely area bound, while AH can go anywhere, and DG only has normal color binding.