Re: Chess symbol rotations (revisited)

From: Hans Aberg <haberg-1_at_telia.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:14:31 +0200

> On 13 Apr 2015, at 23:18, Garth Wallace <gwalla_at_gmail.com> 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. Now I believe I have sufficient evidence for their use in
> running text, which brings up the question of how to name them. In my
> current draft I'm using terms like BLACK 45 DEGREE CLOCKWISE-ROTATED
> CHESS KNIGHT and WHITE 135 DEGREE ANTICLOCKWISE-ROTATED CHESS KNIGHT
> for them. It seems awkward, but I can't think of any better naming
> convention.

Have you checked if they are here:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/mainquery.php?type=Piececlopedia&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&usethisheading=Piececlopedia
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