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Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Mar 5 07:30 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:20 PM:

@Fergus: frankly the colors are fantastic, this is true, but the content is not OK for me. Please don't take it bad and accept my opinion.

I don't think it carries the image I mentally attach to this site that I follow for more than 25 years now. Well, it's a matter of taste and I would like to see what other people think.

The frog and the fairy are cute but there are more figurines that we could find in any Toys'r'us store than bearing a chess character. There are 3D pieces around. Musketeer chess for example. Or we are several people designing Staunton-like 3D pieces for printing. Importing a .stl into Meshmixer we could make very nice 2D images. I could help if needed.

For the line of symbols, I think it is a good idea to have the line with the 6 characters on the top. But on the bottom, too bad that we don't have a true xiangqi piece, a true shogi piece , maybe a janggi one, along with some of the selected ones you have put. In term of message, I think it would be more universal.