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The *GARGANTUA*, played in France until 1683, is a sequential
eight-stepper of different component legs.
(Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Dor%c3%A9_-_Gargantua.jpg,
 Http://www.sosort-lyon.net/FP/images/gargantua.jpg -- Rabelais; http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rabelais/francois/r11g/book5.25.html.)
Before returning to Joyce Daisies and Gilman suffixes, Binary
1000/0000/0000/0000 is 32,768, to represent 32,767 new piece-types never
made before this comment, because let's use 0111/1111/1111/1111 instead
conveniently.  Using the digits right to left, Bit-place 1 is 1Wazir-0Ferz, Bit-digit 3 1Dabbabah 0Alfil, Bit 5 1FOKnight 0BOKnight, Bit7 1Camel 0Zebra, Bit9 1Rook 0Bishop, Bit11 1Cannon 0Canon, Bit13 1Mao 0Moa, Bit15 1CannonPawn 0QuadraPawn. The other Places/Holders/Bits/Columns/Spaces
2,4,6,8,10,12 and 14 tell as '1' the next step to the left is required,
'0' not required for each up-to-eight-stepper Gargantua. Have around a Charles Fort 100x100 board in case. That's it.  The actual number from 1 to 37,767 determines one clearly-defined piece-type. Each Gargantua can move eight component-steps for sure if unimpeded in actual board position, and each individual p-t probably allows earlier stops for player optionally each turn. ************* Generate a random number
in context. The first sentence above has convenient 15 words bitwise of
lengths 396265421(10)(12)2984 (for example 'the' = 3 = odd), which
''binaried'' as even or odd are x110/0010/0100/0100/. So just that one p-t out
of 32,767 up to 8-stepper, moves in strict order per turn: Ferz then Dabbabah then Backward Knight, then Camel, then Bishop, then Canon, then Moa finally Cannon Pawn, with the ability to stop if wanted after Leg 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 6. A very typical move on little 8x8: c3-d4-f6-g4-f7-b3-g8-e7-d6.
Frolov and Jaguaribe have done these Sequentials before,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=26370.
Joyce is calling the same
Super-class combination pieces. Future computers can be
expected having a field day multi-stepping.
Http://www.framingland-art.com/art/322864/Education_of_Gargantua_illustration_from_Gargantua_by_Francois; the Chess games of Gargantua, http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rabelais/francois/r11g/book1.22.html.
Http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-16964968/illustration-of-a-scene-from-gargantua-by.