[Retros] linguistic hole

[Steve Dowd]

Why not ask Milan if the Mat Plus forum survey option could be used for
seeing who likes  whichof the various options we have seen here? It seems
perfectly suited to the task, or perhaps another webmaster might post a
survey?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Forlot <dominique.forlot at wanadoo.fr> wrote:


> What do you think about the term:

>

> 'Perceval'

> or

> 'Parsifal'

>

> for these promotions!

>

> Its universal in the meaning, ( everybody Know "his Name" )

> A simple man who 'promote' ... and find the graal!

>

> Best regards!

>

> Forlot Dominique.

>

>

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> de

> andrew buchanan

> Envoyé : dimanche 17 janvier 2010 15:09

> À : Retros Mailing List

> Objet : [Retros] linguistic hole

>

>

> Dear Retrofriends,

>

> It seems to me there is a hole in our language for describing promotions.

>

> We like promotions, and we like to have diagrams which are free of

> non-thematic extraneous promoted units. So if there is a promotion,

> something may have to be captured at some point, to keep things looking

> nice.

>

> - If it's the promoted unit which is captured, we call it Ceriani-Frolkin

> and pat ourselves on the back.

> - If it's an original unit which is captured, we call the promoted unit

> Phoenix *but* *only* *if* *the *original* *unit* *died* *before* *the

> *promotion*.

>

> We haven't any term for the more general case of a non C-F promotee, where

> the diagram is free of extraneous promoted units of that type.

>

> Some problems are sometimes described as "double Phoenix", e.g.:

>

> Henrik Juel

> rnbqkb1r/ppppp1p1/8/3B4/8/4n3/PPPP1P1P/RNBQK1NR

> Thema Danicum no. 86, 1997/04

> (no. 22 in Alain Brobecker's Introduction to Proof Games)

> PG in 6.0 moves.

>

> But actually it isn't - only the second promotion is Phoenix.

>

> What we have here I suspect is another adoption of a non-PG term to the PG

> world, where it doesn't quite work the same way. See:

>

> http://dt.dewia.com/yacpdb/?id=271408

> www.selivanov.ru/download/Magazins/Kudesnik/Cud-104.pdf

>

> which are referring in the world of directmates to a Nissl theme (as a

> subtype of Phoenix I think) where the capture must come *immediately*

> before

> the promotion. Clearly in direct mates it is more elegant for the original

> unit to be saced before the promotee reappears.  [Hmmm... Nissl could be an

> interesting theme for a PG exploration...] (Maybe others on the mailing

> list

> have more experience than I of use of the Phoenix theme in forwards

> composition.)

>

> But what should we do in PG world?

> (a) continue to abuse the term "Phoenix" some of the time

> (b) use the term "non-C-F"

> (c) decide that we don't need a word for this

> (d) invent a new term

>

> I think options a-c are unacceptable. I suggest the term "inheritor". So a

> Phoenixes is a kind of inheritor (a posthumous one! :). We have still no

> term for non-Phoenix inheritors, but let's not worry about that now.

>

> Comments welcome,

> Andy.

>

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