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Since Part One showed the most common variant pieces and Part Two showed those named for animals,

Note that these are subject to all of the same rules and guidelines as Part One, including finding the graphics themselves at /membergraphics/MSiconclearinghouse/ (not the counterpart for this page!).

Pieces

Though not quite as broad and varied as animal-based pieces, the tradition of naming pieces for members of clergy, nobility, royalty, military, and similar figures is just as old.

Clergy & Nobility

Rotary Counterparts
Clergy Nobility
Abbot (B4N) Duke (R4N)

abbot

duke
Healer
(KANG)		 Crusader
(KNDH)

maltesecross

crusader

crusader1
Hospitaller
(AN)		 Templar
(DN)

hospitaller

hospitaller1

templar
Priest (FN) Marquis (WN)

cross

marquis

Another chess tradition is pieces named for royalty, nobility, clergy, and their staff. Typically, those named for nobility have mainly orthogonal moves, while those named for clergy have diagonal moves, in keeping with the Rook and Bishop respectively.

Many of these pairs of pieces are what I call "rotary counterparts": what one does vertically, the other does orthogonally, and vice versa. Such pairs featured in Part One include:

A few more are presented on the table at right. Not all of them are divided by clergy/nobility, but all are rotary counterparts.

On alternate names for these:

Military & Artillery

And another tradition is pieces named for military ranks, artillery, and similar things.

Military Ranks

Archery

There are almost as many ideas about what an Archer should be able to do as there are games that feature it. However, in looking through them I see most often either two diagonal steps or a (1,2) rifle capture, so the most reasonable standard would seem to be F2cabN, which I use as the default here.

Archery
Archer (F2cabN) Bowman
(nNafsafmpafzcabmpafzK)		 Shield Archer
(F2cabN)
spell=brake

archer

Enhanced Archers

bowman

shieldarcher

archerzz2

archerzz3

Artillery

 

Siege Engines

 


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