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H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Oct 20, 2014 08:04 AM UTC:
The move you discribe is listed in the Piececlopedia here as that of the Griffon, not Aanca ( http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/griffon.html ). I tried to look for Aanca on chessvariants.org, but I could not find it in the alphabetical index. My information about it comes from Ralph Betza's article on bent riders ( http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/bent-riders.html ) to which the Griffon page refers.

If you found contadictory information on this site, please give the link. You also speak about books. Which books?

Not that it means much to me how the piece would be called; I just tried to stick to the consensus as I knew it. I am sure I use other names (like Unicorn) which where already used before in other contexts for a different piece. But WinBoard only offers a limited set of piece images, and I wanted to have a Knight-like symbol for this augmented Knight, and it seemed silly to call a thing that so clearly is depicted as a Unicorn anything else than 'Unicorn'.

The name Phoenix for the WA was taken from Chu Shogi, the name Mammoth was my own invention, since the piece seemed a more 'bulky' version of the Elephant. The name Cobra was also my own invention, inspired by the fact the WinBoard did have an image for it, and that its move pattern in each of the 4 major directions resembles the fangs of a Cobra. (It can also be seen as an extended Knight, but I did not want too many Knight-like symbols, especially not for a piece that already starts next to an orthodox Knight.) The Adjutant was one of Mats Winther's pieces, IIRC.

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