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Before posting any Variant, of course, many designers read over Truelove's piece list for prior uses and have checked Pritchard's 'ECV'. Really it is incumbent on the conscientious inventor of new fairy Chess Rules-set also to read and learn George Jeliss' 100 or so standard definitions. At the outset, we take one exception to descriptive practice here. Jeliss calls, for example, Camel (1,3) leaper, as do most other analysts. We prefer to say (2,4), to denote rectangle of squares involved, not any movement itself stepwise. The preference for (2,4) instead rests on their being many pathways from starting square to opposite corner of (2,4), the ones with 90-degree change(s) of direction not especially more natural than ones showing 45- or 135-degree. Similarly, Antipodean piece, reappearing at (4,4) by Jeliss' usage really refers to opposite corners of (5,5) array of squares, more clearly delineating and ignoring the awkward four steps horizontal then abruptly four steps vertical, or vice versa, intended to be meant by ''(4,4).''