From: Rikard Nordgren <e7rikard <at> ETEK <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
Date: 15 mar 2001
Subject: About the name of the pieces

In the discussion about handicap games there have been some differences
in naming the pieces.
The standard english nomenclature is Silver, Pawn, Rook etc. These names
come from the chess tradition.
It is possible to use the japanese names ginsho (gin), fuhyo (fu) etc
If these names are translated we don't get the standard english names.
Therefore a third way of naming
the pieces is possible i.e. silver, footsoldier, chariot etc.
In Sweden we have another problem: which piece is the horse is it the
horse or is it the knight.
Is it possible to have one name for each piece or do we have to live
with these many different conventions?

Rikard Nordgren