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I have found my notes with a longer list of games with the Knight-Wazir combination piece (Emperor/Marquis)

Here are the games:

Plays in Thronschach, 2000. Glenn Overby II. Called 'Marquis'.

Appears in Gerneric Piece Creation System, 2000, Guilherme S. Töws. Called 'Marquis'

Plays as a royal piece in Mad, 2000, Jason D. Wittmann. Called 'Stone King' or simply 'King'

Plays in Achernar, 2003. Roberto Lavieri. Called 'Grand Horse'.

Plays in veSQuj, 2005. Glenn Overby II. Called 'Brigadier'.

Plays in Lùotuoqí, 2005. Various authors. Called 'Mule'.

Plays in Opulent Chess, 2005. Greg Strong. Called 'Knight'.

Plays in Nova Chess, 2003. Michael Howe. Called 'Cavalier'. [Note: Contribution retracted and no longer available. I still have a printout on paper]

Yes I can add the game 'Megalomachy' to Frog piece info, and other info given in comments so far, I'll do an update before Christmas with a zrf, just a bit busy at moment.

It appears to be in the article under the name 'Newt'. A one-letter abbreviation would collide with that for Knight, though.

BTW, I used a standard Frog (FH) in Megalomachy; perhaps this can be added to the artice?

Bat sounds nice to me for AH

This article makes it easy to find how a piece of a given name moves. But the reverse is still very difficult. Perhaps there should be an index of some kind, where you can alphabetically look up the Betza notation, and find names that are used for a piece that moves that way.

Except that Betza notation is not really unique. So for this to work we should define some 'canonical form' of the notation, which would tell us that we would have to look for WD rather than DW. This makes purely alphabetic order perhaps less convenient; ordering primarily by atom, ignoring the modifiers and ranges might be preferable.

Anyway, these thoughts occurred to me when I was wondering whether there exist names for AH and DG, the 'expanded' versions of Kirin and Phoenix. I suppose these pieces qualify as amphibians, as the individual D, A, G and H components are severely area bound, while AH can go anywhere, and DG only has normal color binding.

Just for the curious: I accidentally found the original proposal of the Sweeping Switchers here:

https://www.chessvariants.com/ratings/-piececlopedia.dir-ideal-and-practical-values-4.html

It got refined with the help of the editors here.

I meant the colourswitching piece, the numbers were correct, the last name not. I edited my comment to correct that. Thanks for notifying.

Alibabarider is SS while Dayrider is mKSS.

Queen-of-the-night

Plays in 'Pocket Mutation Chess', by Mike Nelson, 2003.

Add: Called 'Amazonrider' in this game.

I hope my series of comments stops here, but I can't guarantee for that. As a side effect I removed a lot of errors from the English Wikipedia article "List of fairy chess pieces".

This was an error. Adrian King's Dayrider is in fact AADDmK.

Alibabarider

Plays in Typhoon and Jupiter, 1999, Adrian King. Called Dayrider in both games.

Here are some rather marginal leapers.

German problemists (see https://dieschwalbe.de/lexikon.htm ) have named a few more leapers:

3,0-leaper: Dromedar "dromedary"

3,3-leaper: Gecko "gecko". Was Betza aware of this name when he choose the letter G in his funny notation for (3,3)?

5,0-leaper is unnamed, Gilman offers Quibbler for this one

5,2-leaper: Korsar "corsair"

5,0-3,0 combined leaper: Kröte "paddock" (since the more natural "toad" is already taken)

7,0-leaper: Hirsch "deer" (one may also consider "stag" here, but Cazaux uses stag for a 4,2-leaper). Gilman's name for this one is "settler".

Giraffe-Ferz, Giraffe-Wazir, Giraffe-Wazir-Ferz

I haven't encountered any of those three pieces in a game.

I’ve found a good name for King-Zebra compound: Zoologist.

Two more potential additions

Titan

A combined 3,0-3,1-3,2-3,3-leaper, the larger analogue to the squirrel. Other names are Cheetah (Silvermann, Cazaux) and Beaver (Gilman).

Plays in Fantasy Grand Chess: Giant Army, 2000, Peter Hatch. Called Titan Plays in Phantastic XIII, 2022, Jean-Louis Cazaux. Called Cheetah

Direwolf

Combined piece of Squirrel and Titan.

Plays in Phantastic XIII, 2022, Jean-Louis Cazaux. Called Direwolf (in the revised edition, formerly Sabertooth)

A potential addition:

Wazir-Knight-Threeleaper see Flier

Flier

Combined 1,0 2,1 3,0 leaper Plays in The Sons of Mithras, ca. 1992, Michael Chang Gummelt and Holly Gummelt. Called Flier in this game.

Typo (Cut-and-paste error):

Currently, Zebra-Wazir and Zebra-Wazir-Fers are duplicated

Zebra-Wazir-Fers

Never seen this creature.

Knight-Dabbaba-Fers

I have not noticed this combined leaper in any game.

Lion-Grande_Acedrez:

The combined (0,3)(1,3) leaper (Camel+Threeleaper) plays in Citadelir Chess 2020, Daphne Snowmoon. Named Prophet.

Emperor (Marquis)

I think this is worth mentioning:

Plays in 'Jetan', 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Called 'Thoat'.

This is a remark on spelling: The little Fers/Ferz occurs in both spellings in this file. Both spellings are legitimate but I think you should decide on one and use it consistently and mention the other one only in the main entry for the piece. My personal preference is Ferz with z, but I don't mind if you use Fers throughout.

omg that knight, lol. ok done :)

The author, Christine Bagley-Jones, has updated this page.

Take the time you need to tame this monster.

There is another minor correction left:

'Knight-Camel-Wazir', see 'Eutonic-Knight'.

should have the "T" for "Teutonic", too.