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Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Feb 18 10:12 PM UTC in reply to hirosi Kano from 11:24 AM:

There are more or less established names for all the pieces with single steps in a mirror symmetric pattern. Some of them may just be alternate English translations from Japanese, some genuinely different. Most names come from Shogi and Shogi variants, a few are Western names. I give the name I consider most standard and best understood first:

fW (your Soldier): (Shogi) Pawn, Foot Soldier

fsW (your Sergeant): Korean (Janggi) Pawn, Chinese Pawn (after crossing the river), Drunken Soldier (Jelliss)

fF (your Officer): Stone General or Sekisho, Goose (Fox and Geese, Jelliss)

fWfF (your Colonel): Iron General, compare also Graz Pawn (Chess problems)

fbWfF (your Brigadier): Copper General (Dai Dai Shogi), Flying Goose (Taikyoku Shogi) Climbing Monkey (Wa Shogi, Takyoku Shogi)

fWF (your Admiral): Silver General

fsWfF (your Tactician): Evil Wolf or Akuro, Panthan (Jetan)

WfF (your General): Gold General, Tokin

fsWF (your Marshal): Drunk Elephant or Suizo. Note that Marshal is one of the common Western names for the Rook-Knight compound piece.

Not in your list:

FfbW: Ferocious Leopard or Mohyo, Jelliss translates the same Japanese word as
Horrible Panther.

Some sources for the piece names:

Christine Bagley-Jones: Fairy Pieces Part 1, https://www.chessvariants.com/ideas/fairy-pieces-part-1

J.P.Jelliss "All the Kings men": https://www.mayhematics.com/v/gm.htm#G This has names for all "generals", i.e., one step movers with left-right symmetrical moving patterns

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_chess_pieces


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