Greg Strong wrote on Wed, May 22, 2019 12:15 PM UTC:
Excellent. I'm glad you're on board. And I did, indeed, use X for the Phoenix. I think I used S for Short Rook also if memory serves. I have to head to work so I don't have time go into too much detail about what I chose and why right now. My goal was to not invent names myself any more than absolutely necessary - I used existing naming wherever I could find one.
Funny you mention "an important cleric" for the BD. The name I have been using is "Cleric". This is a case where I was not aware of any existing name and Cleric was a nice medieval name that hadn't been used. For FAD I used "War Elephant" - the piece is an elephant crossed with a dabbabah (war machine.) I didn't invent that, but I don't remember exactly from where it came. I think Joe Joyce may have come up with that originally. The Fibnif, I used "Narrow Knight". This just seemed obvious and similar to Charging Rook and Charging Knight, who's names I didn't feel needed changing. The HFD is the "Lion". This was originaly used by David Paulowich in his games and I followed his lead in my games (Opulent Chess and Hubbub.) This is one of my favorite variant pieces. Yes, the Lion has a different meaning in Chu Shogi, but that piece is pretty different and wasn't really used in conventional chess variants. You have since used it in Elven Chess with a different name, but that was long after. David used this name about 15 years ago. Then there's the BD. I have been using "Bowman" but I was never all that happy with this one. It came from Compton Medieval Chess, which was the only existing use of the piece I could find, but this game is extrememly obscure and the name didn't really seem to match the piece. Tower is probably a better name and I'm happy to change.
Excellent. I'm glad you're on board. And I did, indeed, use X for the Phoenix. I think I used S for Short Rook also if memory serves. I have to head to work so I don't have time go into too much detail about what I chose and why right now. My goal was to not invent names myself any more than absolutely necessary - I used existing naming wherever I could find one.
Funny you mention "an important cleric" for the BD. The name I have been using is "Cleric". This is a case where I was not aware of any existing name and Cleric was a nice medieval name that hadn't been used. For FAD I used "War Elephant" - the piece is an elephant crossed with a dabbabah (war machine.) I didn't invent that, but I don't remember exactly from where it came. I think Joe Joyce may have come up with that originally. The Fibnif, I used "Narrow Knight". This just seemed obvious and similar to Charging Rook and Charging Knight, who's names I didn't feel needed changing. The HFD is the "Lion". This was originaly used by David Paulowich in his games and I followed his lead in my games (Opulent Chess and Hubbub.) This is one of my favorite variant pieces. Yes, the Lion has a different meaning in Chu Shogi, but that piece is pretty different and wasn't really used in conventional chess variants. You have since used it in Elven Chess with a different name, but that was long after. David used this name about 15 years ago. Then there's the BD. I have been using "Bowman" but I was never all that happy with this one. It came from Compton Medieval Chess, which was the only existing use of the piece I could find, but this game is extrememly obscure and the name didn't really seem to match the piece. Tower is probably a better name and I'm happy to change.