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Manticore. (Updated!) Moves one space orthogonally, then slides outward as a Bishop.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝Bn Em wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 04:21 PM UTC:

Your comment said that RennChess was “a follow up of Mideast Chess” — if so then it would make sense that Eric would not keep the Cavalier's name but change the move. Thus his understanding of Mideast probably agreed with Pritchard, which would mean that Gollon also agreed (in both sources, if different). In that case Hans' page has an error introduced either by a typo from Eric, or by Hans.

Given that that move is probably erroneous, it makes sense to either remove the reference, or keep it but with a note that it's probably in error. In the latter case, calling it “Hans' account” could risk reflecting badly on him, even though (of course) that is not the intent. Fwiw, “These pages' account” risks the same directed at ourselves(!), while “one account” or “some accounts” is quite unspecific (and the latter may be incorrect if ours is the only such).

Hope that's clearer — English is very much one of my mother tongues (though sometimes I wonder whether it'd be more interesting if it weren't), as is indirection/terseness it would seem ;)