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David Howe wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 06:15 PM UTC:
That would be up to the committee. :)

Seriously -- the committee might publish standards and guidelines
regarding the naming of certain common pieces or variants. Consider how we
currently reference 'Chess': FIDE Chess, International Chess, Western
Chess, Usual Chess... It would be nice to settle on an accepted standard.

Coming up with standards and guidelines wouldn't force anyone to use them,
but we as editors might make use of them when editing documents for
publication. I'm not trying to stifle creativity, but merely avoid some
confusion and inconsistencies.

All the discussion over Marshal(l) vs. Chancelor got me thinking about how
issues like that could be resolved. Hence my suggestion. I won't be
surprised if nothing comes of it however.