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Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  jesters? they’re bishops…

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  • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      well, til!

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      • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And in German they’re “Runners”

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  • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Potato potato

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      well in my language they’re “runners” so i guess i should have thought a bit harder there…

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The rook was initially a chariot.

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• Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Okay since nobody did a serious answer, here we go:

  tl;dr: its a translation error.

  The first documented forms of chess are all “war machines” of their time the tower was a Charioteer.

  When chess hits Europe someone translated charioteer with tower. Idk why, maybe because the used figures looked like a tower.

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  • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I kinda wish we’d kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.

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    • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Definetly.

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• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Towers are made of stone

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