Larry Smith wrote on Tue, Oct 7, 2008 12:17 AM UTC:
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but some might want to check out
the Generic Chess Piece Creation System by Guilherme S. Töws on this site.
It offers a nice form to identify pieces about halfway down the page. And
it can be expanded on.
Rather than utilizing descriptive names which may change from one game to
the next or evolve over the years, a quasi-mathematical description could
be applied. For example: the Queen could be referred to as DnOn, meaning
Diagonal for n or Orthogonal for n. Or the Knight could be L(2,3), meaning
a 2 by 3 area leap.