Not surprisingly we don't find any elephants in the European chess sets. Rook then really points to the Oriental origins of chess, while medieval northern Europeans put their own interpretations on the other pieces, effectively naturalizing them. In English, we don't speak of a "tower" as Germans and Scandinavians do (although the old-fashioned term "castle" persists among the older generations), but of a "rook" which has no etymological value in English as it is originally a loanword from Persian (meaning "chariot"), via Arabic and French. In French, the bishop is neither a bishop or a runner but a "fou" (fool/jester). Even the Queen is known as a "lady" (and not Königin/drottning, as one might expect). Pawn and Bauer/bonde have some overlap but are still distinct conceptual entities. So the knight was not a horseman but a "jumper", and the bishop was not a man of the cloth but a "runner". Germans (and slightly later presumably Scandinavian speakers, probably mediated via German) must when the game arrived on their shores have seen the pieces of the newly introduced game and associated them with different things than did speakers of English. Bishop Runner (laufer) - this is the German name for this piece, commonly used in. It's interesting how the various pieces have been named and conceptualized in different languages. Knight Horse (ko) - amateurs and beginners often use this name. The part of the game which follows the opening. Traditional material values given to the pieces are: Queen (9) Rook (5) Bishop and Knight (3.0) Pawn (1.0), although the values are the subject of substantial discussion. Rook: German = Turm "tower" Swedish = torn "tower"Īs you can see, Scandinavian (here represented by Swedish) tends to follow the German model, rather than the English-language one. Material refers to the chess pieces other than the king, and their respective values. Queen: German = Dame "lady" Swedish = dam "lady" Pawn: German = Bauer "farmer, peasant" Swedish = bonde "farmer, peasant" Knight: German = Springer "jumper" Swedish = springare "jumper"īishop: German = Läufer "runner" Swedish = löpare "runner" Please mention the copyright © Elke Rehder and set a link to this website.I can only speak for German and Scandinavian, but, in contrast to English, the names of the following pieces are: 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. Maybe thats the kind of lber that has given the chesspiece th its name. In particular, chess enthusiasts, who have learned the Latin language in school, will have fun with a link to a page in Latin language. In German the knight is a springer or a jumper. Opens the Danish website in a new window. A major influence being the pieces made in the Selenus tradition. The knight (, ) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horses head and neck. Germany Chessmen have been in Germany since the 15th century onwards. The colour-coded words in the table below are linked to the The trend towards Staunton stayed pieces became more prominent after the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Translation of Chess, Check and Checkmate in International Languages This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The starting squares are c1 and f1 for White's bishops, and c8 and f8 for Black's bishops. Each player begins the game with two bishops. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over intervening pieces. This became the word, fercia and later feirge. The word for queen comes from the Persian word ferz, which means councillor. Part 2: Translation Bishop, Knight, Pawn © Elke Rehder The bishop (, ) is a piece in the game of chess. Is the most valuable piece on the board - worth ‘9 points’ The queen is the most powerful piece in chess It can move infinitely in any direction: vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
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