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Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Feb 6, 2011 07:18 AM UTC:
On whose demand?? Most recently, whoever posted this comment - and I thought that there had been others too but haven't had time to find them. In future I'll ask people to post less anonymously before I follow up their requests so thoroughly. In fact, I've decided to stop posting further index pages after the first C (which I had nearly finished when this issue arose) until these contributors comment again to back me up on this to prove that it's not the thankless task that it feels at the moment. Their names would be welcome this time.

To say that anything outside the Piececlopeida violates the Piececlopedia guidelines is the height of arrogance, because guess what, nothing outside the Piececlopedia is subject to the Piececlopedia guidelines. Man and Beast is not subject to them. Crazy 38s is not subject to them. Ideal Values and Practical Values is not subject to them. Variants are not subject to them, or we'd get no new pieces at all. The U.S. Senate is not subject to them. North West Leicestershire by-laws are not subject to them. Get the picture yet?

Man and Beast serves a different purpose from the Piececlopedia. The Piececlopedia is a record of how pieces have been used in Chess, Shogi, Xiang Qi, and existing variants, primarily 2d variants. It does a very good job of that, which is why most contributors to these pages including myself try to mark such established pieces with links to its Piececlopedia page. We are none of us trying to claim our pages, be they game or piece pages, as part of the Piececlopedia, just giving a fine resource its due credit. Man and Beast is a set of suggestions for distinctive piece names for use in future variants, including those as yet unused, and in particular to extrapolate from existing 2d piece names to names for 3d pieces. This will inevitably include pieces currently ineligible for the Piececlopedia, and so it should.

Is it perfect? No, it isn't, which is why I so welcome contributions. Perhaps I have been concentrating too much on adding pieces and keeping others under new names, and if a particular group of pieces has failed to attract previous names even for the square board, its inclusion could be a mistake. Thus I should have seen that the reasonable extrapolations from the Waffle and Alibaba were other compounds of 2 single-length radials pieces - many of which I later used in Symgi - not 3 or more - whicb included the ones singled out. So I am inclined to drop the likes of the Baffle, Barnabas, Duffel, Fellaby, Piffle, Pribaba, Wallaby, and their FO versions. As the Pasha preceded my inclusion of it I would keep its extrapolations but drop Archpasha, Pashaarch, et cetera. If no-one's desperate for me to keep the pieces that I propose dropping from the series I'll go ahead and do it, and be glad that the indexing has at least triggered me to clear out the worst dross from the system.


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