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Constabulary Chess. Chess on an 8x10 board with compound piece types added. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Mar 3 05:48 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 04:25 PM:

Hi Kevin

I think they were nothing more than just a discussion, no pedant scholar stuff here. The fact that we are writing is sometimes wrongly interpreted, we would not have the same feeling in a real f2f discussion.

Indeed the Kirin and Phoenix are widely used in shogi variants and they form a couple for many people. I also like to follow that. As the matter of fact, both are monsters based on the Chinese mythology, the Phoenix is not even a phoenix as we figure out in the West but a "fenghuang" with a sort of rooster head. I made both in Staunton-like 3D printing, it was fun. See here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6403954

Yes the Dabbaba (no need for the h) means a siege machine. It even means a war tank in modern Arabic! Difficult to pronunce? Da ba ba. Maybe for English, otherwise nothing can be simpler. Long long time ago, about 30 years ago, I investigated the use of Alfil and Dabbaba with the addition of a 1-step move to their 2-step leap. And to distinguish from the Arabic names, I used the English name. This how we got the Elephant and the War Machine, sometimes said Modern Elephant and Modern Machine. I'm guilty.

In short, I think there is no need to mention "Woody Rook" which is confusing with Rook and no much in use nowadays. If you have Kirin, it would have some logic to pair it with Phoenix, but if you prefer Waffle, this is your right, no doubt about that.

I always like your games, I'm eager to see what it is.