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Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Mar 2, 2003 10:53 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

It is very comprehensive on pieces used in 2d variants but has no specifically 3d pieces. I know that Unicorn is standard for the simple triagonal linepiece but would beinterested to know if there are any established names for other (e.g. combined) pieces moving in 3 dimensions.

Rob35 wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2004 03:20 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

I'd really like to see more piecelopedia entries; there are a lot more interesting pieces out there...

George Duke wrote on Sun, Aug 23, 2009 09:59 PM UTC:

Stuck in the loop of how to get out. In future, a better approach may be to focus on pieces rather than specific authored CVs. Proliferation went berserk -- everyone knows that -- and it's juvenile to make the pretense of setting out to play every 4000 CV rules-set, or saying someone else should. A little arithmetic shows it to be impossible in 33,000 days of a long life. It bears repeating over again until so many talkers stop resisting the simple corner we backed ourselves into. It's not just 4000 because each one has a twist and a tweak for variations, such as Stalemate, Pawn technicalities, starting array. Each little thing is a new CV with huge ramification, as intelligently just pointed out by Charles Daniel. Most CVs can only be admired as artwork. It all happened under our auspices. No one else is responsible. That era is dead, or dying, but a better one is emerging. Finally there is self-censorship in rules-sets. Game Courier has about same number of games played now as in 2004, its first full year. Three times the CVs and same level of play mean each one gets 1/3 the attention. That aspect is still static, and so there is only the latest fad. Once it was Pocket Mutation, then Rococo... New CV-playing engines are being developed, and they need guidance. Instead of the 21 mostly large CVs of NextChess3, I am going to select PIECES from PIECECLOPEDIA. We are on to something bigger than just fun for ourselves anymore, or some of us are. This PIECECLOPEDIA will be the way out of the contradictions. http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=mstrebuqi

Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Oct 28, 2020 12:20 AM UTC:

One piece type that perhaps really should have a Piececlopedia article about it is the so-called Ferfil (or Modern Elephant) - maybe there is no article so far because no one is sure what to call it (beyond FA)? The first known inclusion of the type may be in the historical game Courier-Spiel; it has since been included in many chess variants that have been invented, and it seems like a classic compound piece to me, moving in four symmetric directions (ignoring the leap component for a second).

The FA is likely to be worth about a knight on a number of board sizes, in spite of being colour-bound. It's a favourite piece type of mine, as it's even close in value to a bishop on fairly normal board sizes, at least before a wide-open endgame, as the leap component it has can rather make up for a bishop's greater range, which would otherwise make it clearly superior in every way.

KelvinFox wrote on Wed, Oct 28, 2020 03:13 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 12:20 AM:

I've written a piececlopedia myself about the Unicorn (nightrider-bishop compound) and that got accepted, so you writing an article about the ferfil should be possible too

Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Oct 29, 2020 03:49 AM UTC:

At the moment I have all sorts of problems with my Windows10 laptop making involuntary mouse-slips, otherwise I'd be thinking of submitting up to 16 CV invention ideas. I'm not very tech-savvy, unfortunately, nor a scholar of chess variants or their pieces.

In case it's not been noticed, there currently seems to be some sort of (minor?) warning about a graphics link used in the Unicorn article. Downloading or Uploading graphics is something I personally have not caught up with yet when it comes to my little knowledge about using modern computers.

https://www.chessvariants.com/page/MSunicorn-2

Craig Willenberg wrote on Thu, Jun 8, 2023 02:01 PM UTC:

Hi, I would like to add the Dragon Bishop to the piececlopedia. I have completed the template with the relevant information, but I do not know where it should be submitted to. Do I send the file via email or is there a section this can be done on the site?

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Jun 8, 2023 02:34 PM UTC in reply to Craig Willenberg from 02:01 PM:

What is a Dragon Bishop? (Betza's notation?). There are none here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece

In my opinion, writing in Piececlopedia is a sensitive issue. It is easier to write a page for 1 piece than to write a page for a complete Chess Variants, so we could get many controversial entries. What is written has to be very open-minded, or it will be useless and endless disputes. (on the names, the icon, the paternity, etc.)

First, I think that to deserve a mention there, a piece should be present into a minimum of variants to have some recognition. If possible, alternative names should be cited, which implies some serious research work by the author. Some pages are already at this level of quality in the Piececlopedia, but some are not.

Diceroller is Fire wrote on Sat, Jun 10, 2023 07:37 PM UTC:

Can I add my Magician or Zip (or probably other pieces) from my Horizons (or Torch from Orthodia) to Piececlopedia?

For me it’s better to add Zip, but Magician HTML is fully ready.

Craig Willenberg wrote on Thu, Jun 15, 2023 09:42 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Thu Jun 8 02:34 PM:

The Dragon Bishop is a piece that can move like a bishop and a Chinese horse. It is unique to ParadigmChess30, a chess variant created by myself and Lourenzo van Niekerk. A description for this already exists on the chess variants site: https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/paradigm-chess30.

The variant has also been added on chess.com and is played on that platform with the Dragon Bishop available in the fairy pieces on chess.com.

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