On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 14 Apr 2015, at 02:21, Garth Wallace <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >> On Monday, April 13, 2015, Hans Aberg <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > >> > On 13 Apr 2015, at 23:18, Garth Wallace <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > > >> > I'm much further along on my research for a proposal to encode > >> > heterodox chess symbols. I asked about terms for rotations last > >> > November and was told that the terms in use in the standard are > >> > CLOCKWISE-ROTATED and ANTICLOCKWISE-ROTATED (e.g. U+29BC), but I > >> > wasn't sure I would be proposing the knights in intermediate 45 degree > >> > rotations. > >> > >> Have you checked if they are here: > >> > http://www.chessvariants.org/index/mainquery.php?type=Piececlopedia&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&usethisheading=Piececlopedia > >> > > The Piececlopedia doesn't really address symbols directly, it > > describes pieces by their moves. Rotated chess piece symbols are used as > placeholders, with their actual identities as pieces assigned on a > problem-by-problem basis (only the 180 degree turned queen and knight are > fixed by convention, to the grasshopper and nightrider). Think variables, > rather than constants. So, for example, in one problem a knight turned 90 > degrees clockwise may be a camel (1,3 leaper), in > > another problem a mao (xiangqi horse), and still another problem may use > a knight turned 90 degrees counter-clockwise for the camel instead. Without > context, it means "a knight-like piece of some variety, but not an actual > knight". This is long-standing practice in fairy chess problems. > > The mathematical symbols are a mixture of graphical and semantic > descriptions. For example > ⊂ SUBSET OF U+2282 > ⇒ RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW U+21D2 > So one can have both. > > > Yes, and so far my proposal also covers some dedicated compound piece symbols, but my question is about naming some of the rotated ones.
