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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 Thu, May 2 11:46 AM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 03:11 AM:

@Bob: "for your own part"? I don't know where you got that. I never saw this. I have seen "Godzilla" as compound of W-R and F-R. Here by Ivan Derzhanski.

About the discussion on Aanca, if you search a litlle bit you will find, even on this site, for example just on our last month recognized game. Aanca is the word in medieval Spanish used to describe the anqa, a giant eagle preying elephants from the Persian tales, in the Libro de los juegos (1273), for Grant Acedrex, playing as F-R.

Murray (History of Chess, 1913) translated Aanca by Gryphon (which is not exactly the same monster), hence the name used by most chess variant lovers.

Betza made a mistake by misunderstanding Murray and called Aanca the W-R, not the F-R.

Aanca=Anqa=Gryphon as much as Rey=King, Peon=Pawn, Torre=Rook.

We do have a large choice of other names for W-R so there is no need to employ a word which results from a mistake.