This is just the sort of reminder that I needed. I'd recalled talk of the
Lion Dog from someone who'd proposed a 'Bishop's Dog' but had forgotten
the mention of the Wrestler. Recently I've been tending to get rid of
obscure and, as yet, unused specific names in favour of single qualifiers
First I applied Fimbriated to simple Bent riders to give more complex oners
in place of names such as Abbey, Airport, Cathedral, and Spaceport. Then I applied Twice-Pawned Uncubbed to odd-only pieces in place of the Pawer, Brewer, Harrower, Raver, et cetera. It seemed instinctive to devise a common term rather include a one-off Shogi-variant name. Thanks for reminding me that it is not a one-off.
A phrase like 'Guardian of the Gods' is far from a natural Chessman name for English speakers, and there are variations in the piece anyway, but how about Guardian on its own for the orthogonal piece? By chance adding the forward Ferz moves would, in Man and Beast terminology, give Goldguardian, and Gold is only one letter out from God! Interestingly, Liondog=Guardian+Wrestler unites three names featuring 'weak' letters in the sense of ones lending themselves to (some would say equally weak) puns by their omission on lion/line, guardian/garden, and wrest/rest. I do not recall offhand whether any Shogi variants have forward-only versions of the three pieces, but if not then the omitted letters do give me some idea for such pieces. If anyone does know of existing forward-only ones, please comment here. In the long term I plan to adjust Man and Beast 11 accordingly.
