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If they didn't already have established leading names, I would call the ''Rook'' the Ship, the ''Bishop'' the Fool, and the ''Knight'' just the Horse. But to systematize it for compounds and limited pieces, Gilman would want suffixes or prefixes, like -Ro, -Fo and -Ho. ''Ship of Fools'' is potentially then the old Carrera Champion (RB) also in one convenient application. Carrera Centaur(BN) could be FoHo or HoFo or loose HoBo, with understanding that -Bo- and -Fo- both denote Bishop according to euphonic preference. I think Rook icon is generally better as a Ship than a Tower, because several regular pieces look like that. The Horse should formally have wings or could be a Plane since no one will ever be interested in any other jumper, or flyer, than the 1,2, notwithstanding all the work going into ''From Ungulates Outward.'' It's obvious to six-year-olds that only Horses jump. As an afterthought, let's invent a new piece totally new and unprecedented. Let's see, the BoBo. BoBo, blockable, moves as a regular Bishop plus one additional adjacent opposite colour diagonal at his NW to the end of the board NE to SW, either way, never the other way diagonally on that opposite colour from present starting square. There. Bobo, banana fanna. Ship-of-Fools