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TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Other fun facts i. This article, ow which my favorite parts are the maps and their titles:

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  • JayDee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what’s a ‘jumper’?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They look the same. A “jumper”, or “springer” in Danish, is just a differently named “knight”.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s so easy to tell this map was made by a Brit. Wales gets its own color (despite largely not speaking Welsh) but Belgium and Switzerland are monochrome (despite having multiple federally recognized and geographically partitioned monolinguistic regions and their own flavors of historical-but-rarely-spoken language)?

    Only the Bri’ish would be haughty enough to assume their flavour of federal governance is so unique.

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• RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No… Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in

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  • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “ml/in”?

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    • RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Malayalam

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      • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ah.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    नहीं. हाथी, घोडा, उंट, वजीर.

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    • RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Queen is actually vizier പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Queen is actually vizier

        That’s what I said

        പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

        नाही समजलं

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