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Greg Strong wrote on Thu, May 23, 2019 04:07 PM UTC:

How about this? I changed Bowman to Tower, which is probably a little better. It is unfortunate that I cannot find a historical precident. It seems like this is an obvious piece that would have been used log ago but apparently not. For the Nutty Knights, We have Charging Rook, Charging Knight, and Colonel all beginning with C. The Charging Rook can be R. The Charging Knight could be N, but then what about Narrow Knight? I think Jockey sounds like a reasonable choice for the Charging Knight (a piece that moves partly like a horse and partly like a man) and J is unused. Leaving us with:

Colorbound Clobberers
Archbishop Archbishop A
Bede Cleric C
FAD War Elephant E
Waffle Phoenix X
Remarkable Rookies
Chancellor Chancellor C
Short Rook Short Rook S
Lion Lion L
Woody Rook Tower T
Nutty Knights
Colonel Colonel C
Charging Rook Charging Rook R
Charging Knight Charging Knight N
Fibnif Lancer L

I'm also open to something other than Narrow Knight if we can come up with a GOOD name that makes sense. Although, if we did that, that would free up N for Charging Knight, which would have the advantage of not reassigning names to those pieces that Betza already fixed. I suppose that the Fibnif could be Jockey since it also has horse-moves and man-moves, although not as obviously as the Charging Knight.


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