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🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Mar 31, 2021 12:23 AM UTC:

Since the Compounds group had only two sets in it that didn't even match up, and one belonged to the Chess group anyway, I removed its members and replaced them with four new piece sets that do match, more or less. These four are drawn from the Abstract, Alfaerie, Magnetic, and Motif pieces. They are meant to consist only of pieces that can be made by using or recombining standard Chess piece images, particularly for Magnetic and Motif. Each one currently has all double compounds of King, Rook, Bishop, and Knight. The Amazon is the only triple compound. Compound pieces have two or three letter labels indicating the pieces they are compounds of. There is some redundancy regarding the Queen, using both q/Q and rb/RB for the Queen, since Fusion Chess uses the latter. This also carries over to the labels for the Amazon, which are qn/QN and rbn/RBN. I would like to add Ferz and Wazir pieces, some compounds with these, and some more triple compounds with these and/or the King. I'm still working on Ferz and Wazir designs. Some alternatives are to use smaller Rooks and Bishops, to mix the Rook and Bishop with Pawns, or to place the numeral 1 on modified Rooks and Bishops.