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Chancellor. Fairy Chess name for Rook+Knight compound.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 03:25 AM UTC:

I don't think it is desirable or feasible to enforce standardized names. I
believe it's best to respect the autonomy of individual game creators,
allowing them to choose whatever names they prefer. But I also believe
that game creators are best served by knowing the history of the pieces,
so that they can make informed decisions about what to name a piece. I
also believe it is good to provide reasons for and against certain names,
allowing the game creator the freedom to judge whether or not the reasons
are good ones. This allows game creators to freely make informed
decisions, which is what's best.

As it happens, this piece and the Bishop-Knight piece are probably the two
pieces with the longest list of different piece names. This is because
they are the most popular fairy pieces, but they have never been standard
pieces. The standard pieces and the little-used pieces are generally known
by fewer names, and it is easier to settle on common names for them. But
these two pieces have been used in several unrelated games, possibly
reinvented several times, and they have acquired a longer list of names.