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I can completely understand the source of this topic.  I know that there
has been several requests that the Archer in Field Chess be re-named
because it doesn't have the 'shoot'.  I am one of the guilty.

The naming of playing pieces is the privilege of the developer.  Games
with themes have often given names to pieces which might otherwise have
previous designations.  And new pieces are sometimes given the title of
pieces which are barely similar.

The standardization of piece names is an ardent task.  There are a lot of
published games that would need reconciliation, some of which the authors
are no longer available for such.  In the compilation of a list of piece
descriptions, there might be several different forms.  This means that the
researcher will just have to accept the labor.

There will develop, over time, a common use of certain piece names.  And
these can be tagged as such in the name description.

And whether a particular description of a piece is mentioned will be
totally dependent on the criteria of the list.  What ever this evaluation,
it should be fairly applied.

Apology accepted. Following up on Michael Nelson's comment, the earliest
game I've found with an Archer in it is Spanish Chess, which dates back
to 1739. I used the list of Fairy Chess pieces on this site to find the
names of games that use an Archer, then looked them up in Pritchard's
Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. In Spanish Chess, Archers move forward
like Rooks and backwards like Bishops. The Archer was also used more
recently in a commercial game called Fantasy Chess, made by Little Soldier
Games in 1975. This Archer moved up to four squares in any direction.