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Joe, I don't know what got you upset. If it was the trivial idea of
replacing the knights with Elks, I had already investigated that before
you proposed it, and I had dismissed it, for reasons I already  told. But
when you proposed it again I investigated it again, and decided to add it
as a variant. There is too much touchiness in this forum sometimes. 
I have not claimed that the Mammoth is my invention. I say on my homepage,
and in my zrf:s that '...The Mammoth piece (also called Mastodon) is not 
entirely new. Under other names it appears as the queen analog in Grand 
Shatranj and as the royal piece in Atlantean Barroom Shatranj. In EV 
Greenwood's Renniassance Chess (not misspelt) from 1980, the piece is 
named Squire.' So these allegations directed against me are false. Other 
inventors have already acquired the Squire and renamed it, before I did so. 
Probably they had no idea that the Squire existed. Moreover, the demand 
that I should have to check up every obscure fairy piece in all kinds of 
publications, before I appropriate a piece name, is ridiculous. 

Anyway, I now leave this forum because there is a very strange underlying 
enmity here. I feel no need to put up with it.
--Mats