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Duckbag posted:Yeah, every kid who plays chess for the first time calls it that until someone corrects them. Not everyone accepts the correction. I mean, it's literally a horse and a knight is nowhere in sight. So "corrects".
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The Belgian posted:Also call the queen queen in Dutch (koningin).
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Hambilderberglar posted:Fucks your notation up. K is king. So D for Dame rather than Koningin or else you have to start faffing about trying to make it distinguishable. Qoningin. King and Knight don't cause any problems for english-speakers though.
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Deltasquid posted:Qoningin. Well yeah I mean N for kNight sort of makes sense.
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In the case of Dutch, just M for koningin Maxima. That'll be valid for a couple more years.
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N for Neigh
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bagual posted:Georgian Turtles, known for speeding across the battlefield Watch it, a turtle will gently caress your poo poo up real bad! 
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Can turtle refer to the Roman formation?
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System Metternich posted:I like weirdly specific maps same https://twitter.com/alissascheller/status/898646730308276225
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Carbon dioxide posted:In the case of Dutch, just M for koningin Maxima. That'll be valid for a couple more years.
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System Metternich posted:I like weirdly specific maps Yeah, Craig Robinson (not any of the ones you know) has done a lot of cool infographics, though not as many in the last several years as he did in the early 201Xs. And they generally are quite good.
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I grew up calling the knight "cheval" in French, and also the queen was definitely the "reine" 
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frankenfreak posted:Are you serious about this? Are they using W for the king, too? Is anyone ever serious about anything on the Something Awful Comedy Forums?
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Ratsu doesn't mean horse it means any animal you ride.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ratsu doesn't mean horse it means any animal you ride. So it means “steed”.
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HookShot posted:I grew up calling the knight "cheval" in French, and also the queen was definitely the "reine" cavalier and dame is what i was taught. wikipedia lists reine as "improper" but i've def. heard it. in trying to see what the québécois say, i found http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/article/histoire-du-jeu-dechecs which claims that it's a post revolutionary change but that seems fishy to me. Tree Goat fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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As a Belgian I can say reine and dame are used interchangeably in every French chess match I've ever played, seen or discussed. I have never actually heard anyone refer to the queen as "dame" in Dutch but maybe the Dutch do. Did you know that rooks can castle? They're definitely towers, because they protect a King after he has castled. Like a tower would. Meanwhile in Dutch to castle is called "een rokade" which is a term I have never heard anyone use, except a friend who was learning chess for the first time and who sprung that term on me out of nowhere. It doesn't even mean anything outside of chess, as far as I know.
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Deltasquid posted:Did you know that rooks can castle? They're definitely towers, because they protect a King after he has castled. Like a tower would.
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 The eclipse as seen on Google traffic maps
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The Queen should be called Dame whenever possible, so you can remember to put it on the D tile. Luckily, in Danish, the options are Dame and Dronning, so that works.
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Deltasquid posted:As a Belgian I can say reine and dame are used interchangeably in every French chess match I've ever played, seen or discussed. I have never actually heard anyone refer to the queen as "dame" in Dutch but maybe the Dutch do.
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Koningin strikes me as more natural, but then again I know nothing about chess. I don't think I've ever played a match in my life.
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the only correct term for the queen in Finnish is akka, "hag"
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Ras Het posted:the only correct term for the queen in Finnish is akka, "hag" I'd translate it as crone but also you know deep down in your heart the real word rhymes with darra anyway.
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OUT: daami lyö ratsun IN: akka syä hepan
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Ras Het posted:OUT: daami lyö ratsun "turpa kiinni hevos äiä" - Huarra.
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Tree Goat posted:cavalier and dame is what i was taught. wikipedia lists reine as "improper" but i've def. heard it. in trying to see what the québécois say, i found http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/article/histoire-du-jeu-dechecs which claims that it's a post revolutionary change but that seems fishy to me. Yeah, I have no idea what Québécois people would be taught. It's also possible that we used reine and dame interchangeably, and I just don't remember. I haven't played chess with any of my French family in a loooong time. But I know as soon as I saw it I remembered her being referred to as the reine.
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HookShot posted:I have no idea what Québécois people would be taught. 
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I'm down to bring that back.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:A quick googling leads me to believe the term comes from the French rocade, which is apparently a path inside a fortification that allows defenders to move within the defensive perimeter while shielded from the enemy. Seems like a pretty appropriate name for the move. We use the same term here in Denmark by the way, though also for the shuffling of a cabinet. Same thing in Russian, even the word probably has the same origins (rokirovka).
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Dreddout posted:Imagine being an economic hipster wrt Georgism I am that guy. frick u
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In my ideal world north of the rio grande would be American and French with no in between .
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Eskaton posted:I am that guy. *straightens bowtie* Listen here you little poo poo Henry George is indirectly responsible for the creation of Monopoly which means he has caused more human suffering in aggregate than Genghis Kahn, the world's greatest environmentalist
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In the Islamic world sometimes they make king pieces that have a cute star and crescent instead of a cross   also tangentially-map-related piece of info since this is basically the "cultural/geopolitical/historical/etc trivia" thread, every use of the word "check" in English is etymologically descended from the chess sense. 
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Just got this from an unrelated giphy search
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Tweezer Reprise posted:In the Islamic world sometimes they make king pieces that have a cute star and crescent instead of a cross Now cut some pieces off the star to shape it into a hammer.
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Sereri posted:Just got this from an unrelated giphy search FPTP.gif
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Sereri posted:Just got this from an unrelated giphy search Where's 2017?
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