[Retros] linguistic hole

[Joost de Heer]

On 01/17/2010 03:09 PM, andrew buchanan wrote:

> 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.


Gianni Donati named this a 'Prenix' in the GC proofgame tourney (1st HM, 
Andrei Frolkin).

Joost