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Thanks for the comments, Charles. I like the name 'Alibaba', and will gladly use it for the DA piece (even if I never find the 40 thieves), though I also like the 'Jumping General', which would then be the augmented alibaba. I'd prefer to keep to 'old-style' names for the pieces, so I'd be uncomfortable using names like 'Marshlander' for example. You have reminded me of the discussion on names a while back; if I remember correctly, your carpenter got hammered then... sorry, but you shouldn't feed me those lines. You're exposing me as a person who is not serious, but I am a serious designer. And I do want to keep all the names in the same thematic group, so I'll gratefully take alibaba, but probably use the adjective 'augmented' with the name of a piece to indicate it has a new and lesser (not as 'important' or extensive) move; eg: the augmented alibaba is the jumping general. Augmented knights would be the NF and NW pieces (though this might cause a little confusion). Names for compounds of roughly equivalent pieces, like the NA or ND, still elude me.