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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 20, 2020 09:52 AM EDT:

What I meant by legend was a listing of which piece is on each space in the setup diagram. However, this may not be all that helpful, given that most of the pieces unpictured below are not in the initial setup and are left up to one of the players to place into position. Of the unpictured pieces, I can tell which is which, and since this is not a beginner's Chess variant, I suppose anyone interested in playing it will be able to tell the Marshall from the Cardinal and will be able to recognize the usual Chess pieces.

One more thing I'll recommend is including a link to the piececlopedia entry for a piece where there is one. This should, of course, match the piece that moves the same way, not necessarily the entry with the same name. For example, it would be appropriate to link to the Murray Lion for the Lion or to the Zebra for your Giraffe piece.

Speaking of the Giraffe, bringing up the Elephant in Janggi adds confusion, because that piece is not a leaper, but the Giraffe is.

With respect to the Cannon, it would be better to say immediately that it is the same as the Cannon from Xiangqi, because that game is much better known than Shako. You may mention in an afterthought, though, that you have previously used the piece in Shako, as I have mentioned in Gross Chess, for example, that I have previously used the same piece in Yáng Qí and Eurasian Chess.

Finally, please make your links to the relevant pages on the Chess Variant Pages rather than to the relevant pages on your site. If the CVP is missing a relevant page, you may create it.


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