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Jeremy Good wrote on Sun, Sep 23, 2007 11:09 AM UTC:
In my opinion, piececlopedia became an overly limited enterprise when someone or other decided that it needed to be heavily regulated. I recommend this site as having better potential for the creation of a more comprehensive encyclopedia of pieces. The sheer number of pieces created recently and also over hundreds of years has been daunting. I invite someone to start a page here called piececlopedia (Can I get a volunteer? Graeme? Joe? Gary? Sam?) and I invite Mats, Claudio and others to add to a new inventory.

It wouldn't hurt for someone to take the time to add all the pieces from large shogi variants there, as has already been done on wikipedia but not as part of a specifically piece-oriented encyclopedia there (as far as I know, but it wouldn't hurt for someone to link them all together there on wikipedia too!). The re-discovery of Taikyoku Shogi in 1997 is an event that has not gotten enough attention or serious consideration. Who wouldn't want to know how pieces such as the Cloud Dragon, Swooping Owl and the Violent Ox move?

Our piececlopedia is a wonderful resource (I still occasionally encounter unfamiliar pieces there) but its exclusionary and extremely limited nature has always frustrated me.


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