Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2017 08:20 PM UTC:
I once wrote on CVP about more manufacters of chess-like pieces manufacturing [more] popular fairy chess pieces. I had dug up an old Comment thread started by CVP editor Joe Joyce on the idea of using what he called Universal Pieces (i.e. an assortment of the most popular types, if I recall correctly). I was unaware webmaster Fergus Duniho wrote an article on popular types of fairy chess pieces (it seems tough to highly organize such a massive website as CVP, so that anything relevant to a topic can be brought to one's fingertips, even if one was unaware of that thing or article's existence).. Anyway, one point I made is that there is going to be some quasi-duplication of piece types if manufacturers ever do start to produce fairy chess pieces en mass. That's since some pieces go by different names, and thus different piece figurines might need to be produced for those who preferred them by a certain name. Such would be the case for the Archbishop, for example, which is also known as a Princess, etc. This is a quirk of chess variants that can be kept in mind, such as when compiling lists of popular piece types.
P.S.: Note to CVP editors: I submitted a variant I invented, for your review, about the 9th of January.
I once wrote on CVP about more manufacters of chess-like pieces manufacturing [more] popular fairy chess pieces. I had dug up an old Comment thread started by CVP editor Joe Joyce on the idea of using what he called Universal Pieces (i.e. an assortment of the most popular types, if I recall correctly). I was unaware webmaster Fergus Duniho wrote an article on popular types of fairy chess pieces (it seems tough to highly organize such a massive website as CVP, so that anything relevant to a topic can be brought to one's fingertips, even if one was unaware of that thing or article's existence).. Anyway, one point I made is that there is going to be some quasi-duplication of piece types if manufacturers ever do start to produce fairy chess pieces en mass. That's since some pieces go by different names, and thus different piece figurines might need to be produced for those who preferred them by a certain name. Such would be the case for the Archbishop, for example, which is also known as a Princess, etc. This is a quirk of chess variants that can be kept in mind, such as when compiling lists of popular piece types.
P.S.: Note to CVP editors: I submitted a variant I invented, for your review, about the 9th of January.