Comment on Checkmate

• Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    well, til!

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    • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And in German they’re “Runners”

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      • apolo399@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll add Spanish! “Alfil”, taken from arabic “(al-)fil”, taken from persian “pil”, meaning “the elephant”, since at some point in the past the piece was, evidently, an elephant.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would have figured Germany would have been the one that changed whatever it was before to bishops in the medieval times on account of how important bishops were for the king/emperor’s military.

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• sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Potato potato

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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