From: "J. Andrew Lipscomb" <ewwa <at> CHATTANOOGA <dot> NET>
Date: 22 nov 1996
Subject: Re: The dragon

A (At) 11:36 22.11.96 +0000, einstein <at> SCN <dot> ORG ecrivait (wrote):
>Answer me a question, hey?
>
>What is the "dragon"?

It is short for dragon king, the literal translation of the Japanese name
for the +R.  (The +B is also called the horse, for dragon horse.)