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Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2012 08:36 AM UTC:
Currently my Man and Beast series takes names such as "Advancer", "Withdrawer", "Chameleon", "Coordinator" as qualifiers for basic piece names, specifically for Queen in the case of square-cell variants using these pieces. On hex boards, Toccata establishes that such names would generally qualify Rook. Giving a distinct name to every combination of direction set and capture type would require several times as many names as Man and Beast currently has. For this reason I consider it best to stick to the qualifying name followed by the name of the piece whose direction is used. Thus a variant might have an Advancer Queen, Advancer Bishop, Advancer Rook, Withdrawer Queen, Withdrawer Bishop, and Withdrawer Rook. This could also apply where noncapturing and capturing directions differ, so that a piece moving like a Rook without capturing, but capturing like an Approacher Bishop, would be an Approacher Stewardess.

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