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Sorry not to get back to you earlier on this, Jörg. It's good to see your approval. Wyvern does clash with Beastmaster Chess, but then so does Pegasus (which I use for a Bent piece). I do not completely rule out replacing Wyvern, but it will not be easy. It is quite difficult to find names that don't have internal clashes, and I had chosen Wyvern because I had previously underused names using Y as a vowel. An added complication is that my convention for 8:6:n cubic pieces is to reverse the 10:n piece name, so Replacing Wyvern would also require replacing Nrevyw with another non-clashing name. Of course the combination of R and I is now free, as would be that of R and U were I to rename the 8:3:2 leaper Sugarglider - a kind of marsupial to go with Dunnart. That however would in turn require a new name for the root-61 pure-hex leaper - I was never satisfied with Suntrap but am still struggling for an alternative to it. Turning to forward-only leapers I have managed to preserve the initial letters of the 7:4 and 8:1 forward-only leapers, and would prefer to do likewise with the 10:7 one and still have a name fitting in with whatever I settle on for the symmetric one. Had I remembered Beastmaster Chess I might have used one or more of the names from that for the same pieces, but substituting them for the names that I ultimately chose - n:4-n Caribou, n:5-n Gamewarden, n:6-n Trampler, n:7-n Swan, each prefixed with End- to add the orthogonal leap - would have too many knock-on effects for other compound pieces.