George Duke wrote on Thu, Aug 16, 2007 11:52 PM UTC:
Since as Ralph Betza points out in 1996 articles, millions of Chess pieces
are possible, and CVPage has only, what, 8000, 10000, 15000 variant
pieces, we could well expunge every one of those 15000 and still have
endless discussions on the remaining 990,000 possible pieces. Fantastic.
No more Wazir, Ferz, Immobilizer, Half-Duck, Flamingo, Nemel, Scorpion,
none of them. Never again Promoter, Venator, Quintessence, Rhino, Dragon, or Nemeroth. If you want to reference a one-step Rook, formerly called
Wazir, now dis-allowed, just find another suitable pathway for it. New
pieces, reaching the old Wazir squares, are innumerable. One, the
Earthquake, goes 13 forward 12 diagonally, and twelve cross-horizontally;
and so on for as many pieces as you want and all the time in the world.
(Betza was not original with that, as David Pritchard says in Intro to
1994 ECV that millions of coordinate pieces alone are possible)