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Standards cannot be enforced, but they could be encouraged more than they
are now.

We should not underestimate the impact of this website on the variant
community. With respect to piece naming we could list 'recommended'
names, and in the description of all variants we could in the setup
description use recommended names only. If the names given to those pieces
originally does deviate from the standard names, we could mention that in a
footnote.

We could conspire to have most variant-playing software use the standard
names, and standard letter-codes derived from those standard names. I
certainly could do that for WinBoard, which is currently the only free
general variant-supporting GUI in existence.

As to piece symbols: We could decide on standard symbols, and make a
true-type font available. WinBoard could then use this font to represent
the pieces, and create diagrams containing these pieces. We could replace
the wide variety of diagram styles present in TCVP all by diagrams using
the standard symbols.