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George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 7, 2017 05:57 PM UTC:

In David Howe's Megachess every piece is a chess game: 32_boards. If putting a unique piece on each square of 32 boards like Megachess has, that suffices to see all of Charles Gilman's approximately 2000 different piece-types and leaves 48 vacant squares for additions and omissions. "The Mega-board (detailed view)" of above article, including the empty squares marked, has all the space needed to number the Gilman types (of course not done in Megachess).

Charles' recording is actually 21 separate indexes, for example 'W' includes W, X, Y, and Z. The 'I' section: I_pieces. The "I's" include 'J' and so "Japan" and there distinctly lists most all of those in Christine Bagley-Jones' article on Shogi Fairy over again. Then one has to look them up for how they move under the Gilman-approved name.

For example, Bagley-Jones: (name Phoenix) (help "Phoenix (Hoo): moves one square orthogonally or jumps to the 2nd square diagonally.") (description "Phoenix\\A Phoenix may move one square orthogonally or jump to the second square in any diagonal direction.") And then Gilman under 'I' above and to "Japan" notes "Phoenix(Hoo) Waffle" and then to "Waffle": WAFFLE square Wazir+Elephant ¢.

Next, Jeremy Good has a short list that's a good refresher: Complementarity.

And Betza's Bent_Riders. That makes 12 separate-authored piece lists. Gilman's are organized into the 19 first letters, with C and S further split into two.


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