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George Duke wrote on Sun, Jan 22, 2017 08:24 PM UTC:

A portmanteau using Gilman methodology for the compound of Champion(RN) and Camel is Carshall coming from Camel and Marshall. By application of the Name List, it can be called Trump too. Carshall, Trump, Car Shill etc. are one and same compound (Rook + Knight + Camel). There is liberty with the name since Charles did not do this series completely.

Then bringing together the Suffix_Index and Name List, there are by extension untold millions of personalized bi-compounds. For example, Trump-Charger is much weaker piece than Trump-Lander, the latter it was seen being omni-directional. All Chargers are Landers by definition, with further restriction of only going forwards, uni-directionally now. Depicting piece as Charger -- already single-stepping or single-leaping by virtue of being Lander -- makes it perfectly Pawn-like. This particular type Trump-Charger then can move forward as Knight, Camel or Wazir, a great five choices for a Pawn. There is no provision for Promotion in the definitional naming itself, but it would be logical as added Rule of the Game.

Let a Pawn be both Berolina and OrthoPawn at the same time, more than doubling its value, and it is accurately described as "Queen-Charger," explaining separately the initial two-step option if wanted.

Differently, how about TrumpRanker? Trump is unambiguous piece though having synonymous names CarShill etc., and "-Ranker" just requires moving more ranks than files. Thus Trump-Ranker is restricted to the narrow Knight and narrow Camel moves forward or backward and only rookwise rankwise (for any distance).

Next, Trump-Filer moves by wide Knight, wide Camel, or Rookwise filewise any distance. Then, Trump-Blinker (or CarShallBlinker etc.) moves as Trump-Ranker but captures as Trump-Filer -- a divergent piece like the F.I.D.E. simple OrthoPawn. CarShill-ContraBlinker, same as Trump-ContraBlinker, moves as Filer any of the compounds three ways (N, R, Ca) widely in the technical sense and captures as Ranker by the same three narrowly.

In another category, non-divergent TrumpRover can indefinitely repeat the Knight legs or the Camel legs, but can only step as Wazir orthogonally. Its purer Gilman name is Carshall-Rover. Still another category by entering another Suffix, '-Switcher' requires odd number of times in one move, so Trump-Switcher goes any of the 20 directions (4+8+8) by stops on the first or third or fifth and so on if board is big enough, whether as Rook, or Knight, or Camel (but not combination) -- nice piece for 16x16 and up.

Yet another group, if ending with '-Snatcher', like Trump-Snatcher (CarShall-Snatcher), the piece-type can repeat a capture in the same direction on the same move (presumably only the very next step or leap). Combining the last two, a Trump-Switcher-Snatcher goes the 20 directions, stopping on odd legs and permitting immediate repeat capture(s) by direct continuation.


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