![]() At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. Perhaps it might have been a "sell-job" with clerics to gain more approval of the game. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. The game was frowned upon as an evil game by rigid clerics in the Medieval Church in spite of the game's popularity among the nobility and landed aristocracy. It's interesting that in English the piece was renamed the Bishop as those who promoted the game in England encountered resistance from the Church. Some have said that in England it reminded folks of a Bishop's miter, hence why it took on the name "Bishop". ![]() Cultures not as familiar with the use of war elephants certainly would put their own spin on how to interpret what that piece is. One abstract form of the piece was two stylized tusks with knobs on the points which was commonly done with war elephants in Persia and India. So it was open to interpretation what to call the piece if the local culture wasn't wanting to retain the arab or persian name of the piece. After that chess reached Persia and from there it reached Arab. The game was inspired by the battle and in fact, the chess pieces were named on the basis of four parts of the army: elephants, chariots, horsemen, and foot soldiers. The piece originally started off as an elephant (if it's agreed that what we call modern chess originated from a military board game out of India) and as the game made its way westward into Europe, the abstract piece representation probably wasn't easily identifiable as elephants, particularly as the game spread to northern game - as most people weren't familiar the beasts. At that time, the game was called ‘chaturanga’ which means four limbs or four parts. The piece that appears to have the greater variance for how it is named is the piece that in English is called the Bishop. Since the hottest it ever got in the Land of Lower Slobbovia was -50 degrees Farenheit they all died. They were sun worshippers and one day the King decided to create a national holiday in which everyone was required to walk around entirely nude all day. Chinese chess pieces are similar to coins with either the Chinese characters or an image printed on them. ![]() Readers may be interested in knowing what actually happened to the Slobbovians. The objective to take the king/ general remains the same and the pieces are very similar in their name, set up and abilities. Since the Slobbovians were too retarded to have a written language no written Slobbovian word is provided. The Slobbovian words for the chess pieces are listed below with the English word given first and the Slobbovian word translated into English is given next. The words were discovered recently and carefully thawed out by scientists. Please mention the copyright © Elke Rehder and set a link to this website.I happen to be an expert in the Lower Slobbovian language which is no longer spoken due to the last last inhabitant of Lower Slobbovia having frozen to death in the winter of 1531. The only reason why we still have knowledge of the language is because it had gotten so cold that the very words themselves were frozen. Chess sites in languages with non-Latin alphabets, such as Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian, can be visited directly without complicated input via the PC keyboard. An Esperanto chess page is also offered, because of the global dissemination. In particular, chess enthusiasts, who have learned the Latin language in school, will have fun with a link to a page in Latin language. ![]() Opens the Danish website in a new window. The colour-coded words in the table below are linked to the Translation of Chess, Check and Checkmate in International Languages Part 2: Translation Bishop, Knight, Pawn © Elke Rehder
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