Wait until they learn how we call their precious precious bishop in French! :^)
I didn’t realize different languages had different meanings for the piece. That’s fascinating.
I like the way Estonia and the ocean have the same name for it.
That’s exactly what I was going to say 🤣
Pretty sure it’s original name translates to elephant in English, and is still called that in many countries.
Now I’m picturing a deep fried Joker meme with him wearing that silly hat
Pointer and pretzel are the only acceptable names moving forward
I didn’t know I was an atheist gay race communist.
Nice.
Fun fact is that this piece isn’t even called bishop in other languages. In french it’s called fool. And both are wrong if you compare to the original indian game
In german it’s called a “Läufer” or walker
Ah yes, because it walks, unlike the other pieces…
Its more runner than walker and the piece goes a lot faster than a peasant for example. Of course the queen and rook can go just as fast, but it is still one of the pieces with the longest range of motion.
Btw, the horse guy is called “Springer” so “jumper”. Because it can jump over other pieces.
*Runner
yeah that’s the elephant in a lot of eastern countries.
In Spanish is called alfil, derived from the Arabic for “elephant”.
Yeah in chess’s Asian cousins the equivalent piece is usually an advisor or general. And then there’s Japan, where they just call it “angle-mover”.
(Worth noting that it’s by far the most blandly named shogi piece. Rooks, for example are “flying chariots”.)
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i don’t remember what this image is can someone clue me in lol /genuine
Mr game & watch
Mr. Game & Watch. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but he might be the first “video game character” ever created?
oh yeahhhh i knew it looked familiar
chess dot cum
you heard that right
Just to piss that guy off, I’d support calling it a Dawkins
Nah, Dawkins was buddies with Epstein.
You have any proof of that?
You maybe confusing Epsteins here? All I can find is he once talked to Rafael Epstein
I’d recommend a source instead of a small number of JPGs for the future.
Looks like the source is this article which documents just how embedded Epstein was in New York and saught to be included in philosophical discussions.
I’m not sure this is as damning as you think for Dawkins, more so than the manager who was actually in Epstein’s phone book.
Seems like he should have asked more questions about who was sponsoring his flight to a TED talk than someone that rode the Lolita Express.
I’m aware of the source, where’d you think I sourced the image? lol
And I didn’t accuse him of diddling kids, I just said he was buddies with Epstein, or the pedo apologist New Atheist movement at least. Seems like the very least he could’ve done is asking more questions.
Pedobear?
Also Epstein didn’t kill himself. Where are the files?
In my language it’s called Runner anyway (Läufer).
We either call it runner (tekač/laufar) or
jumper (skakač)hunter (lovec) don’t know which one is the officially accepted name.Edit: the horse is indeed the jumper I messed up.
Interesting. In Germany we call the horse jumper.
We call it horse Edit: I messed up the names.
Pretty sure the jumper is the horse.
Yeah I mixed them up since most people just call the horse a horse.
It’s funny, I always suffered from the same mix-up. Now I play more chess with kids so I finally got it. You know how gleefully kids correct adults when they’re wrong.
Yeah but the thing is I never heard anyone refer to the horse by anything other than horse. And I just forgor the other name for the bishop and rememberrd the wrong one
Jumper
That’s interesting considering the knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces
I messswd up the names
Oh that explains it
Bishop and Heterosexual Bishop
Bi-Shop and Straight-Shop
Vizier
Vizier is queen, isn’t it?
Sluggy Freelance had a pretty good and extensive storyline about this, but I guess the comic never really got indexed because my searches are returning nothing.
So I guess you should just read Sluggy Freelance in its entirety, or at least until you find the relevant storyline.
The zoidberg claw.
My new name for it is the gay atheist sorry.
Ink pen.
In France it is called ‘the fool’.
The drag queen
