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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 5, 2021 06:13 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 03:47 PM:

I think "Falcon" and "Advancer" are far more user-friendly identifiers.

Yes, it may be best to not use Betza notation for pieces like these.

I think we can have one standard name used for internal identification and, in most cases, it is pretty obvious what this internal name would be. In ChessV you can call any piece whatever you want in any game but each pre-defined piece has an "internal name" which is used for global identification.

Yes, the fairychess include file for Game Courier does the same thing.

One option is to use Betza notation where it is simple but to use a name where it gets complicated or can't be used. The other option is to use an internal name for every piece.