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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, May 2, 2020 08:43 AM EDT:

I will get to the suggested revisions in due time, but for now, I want to continue with the first stage, which is to identify terms that may be removed. I left off in the Ms.

These are rarely used:

  • move obliquely is used only in Oblique. It may be enough to define the word oblique.
  • move passively is used in only a few variants: Lemniscate Chess, Chess with Ultima, Rococo and Supremo Pieces, and Battle of the Six Armies. It could be replaced with "moves without capturing," which would be clearer in meaning and not require its own glossary entry.
  • move radially is used only in Tenjiku Shogi, where it has no link to the glossary. It may be enough to include a definition for radial.
  • The phrase "move to capture" is common, but apparently not with the definition given for it, which doesn't even make any sense to me.
  • neighboring squares is rarely used. This could be shortened to just neighboring. I want to reduce the use of terms with squares, because spaces can be other shapes.
  • oblique move
  • oblique square
  • The word "option" is frequently used but probably not always in the narrow sense of "move option."
  • overtake is used only in Checkers with Bosses.

These are not used:

  • move zone
  • non-capture square

I will stop here for now and continue next time with the Ps.


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