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Chancellor. Fairy Chess name for Rook+Knight compound.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Peter Aronson wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 03:09 PM UTC:
However, both Marshal(l) and Chancellor where in use long before problemests discovered these pieces. It seems to me if you're going to talk precedence, than Empress is a new-comer. In any case, I don't see any reason why we should 'nudge' anyone toward using 'standard' terms -- if a variant designer wants to have a piece called a <b>Goshdak</b> that moves like a Rook or a Knight, all I'd want is a note that the piece is more commonly called a Marshal or a Chancellor. And yes, I wouldn't even mention Empress, since among variant <u>players</u> that name is far less well known.