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Claudio Martins Jaguaribe wrote on Sun, Sep 23, 2007 04:11 AM UTC:
One aspect about proliferation that bothers me is that people are creating
chess variants, shogi, etc, using pieces and not adding a single one to
the piececlopedia.

When the last entry was written?

The same piece gets lots of names, and not for the sake of the variation
theme, just because the author thougt about it and didn't found a similar
in the main research instrument of the site. Sometime this variation is created with the sole purpose to presente the 'new cool piece' created by the author, who had the genuine belief that piece was a brand new one, after all he looked at the piececlopedia and found nothing like it!

I trully believe that, as I do, lots of people have their personal
piececlopedia; no matter the notation used to translate the movement.

What people doesn't think about is to unify the names of the pieces to
keep the first name the official. If someone needs to rename it for the
sake of the theme, ok, the descripition would be easier, something like:
the cat= man.

And, if a new piece is added, just take the time to write about it in the
piececlopedia, even a piece that you know that isn't yours but you are
the first to give credit to the author. Believe me, he would love to see
the acknowledgement of his work and people who follow you would thank you
just because you took the time to make their work easier.

To me,a person that loves the harmony of the movement of the pieces, their ballet on the board, the piececlopedia is a vital instument of research.

Please people, think about it and let's give the pieclopedia the boom that
it deserves.

Hugs!!

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