From: "Secelle Johannes F.L.A." <johannes.secelle <at> MINFIN <dot> FED <dot> BE>
Date: 15 mar 2001
Subject: Re: About the name of the pieces

To my knowledge,
a horse is a promoted bishop and
a dragon is a promoted rook,
though I might be mistaking :)

Hans

Rikard Nordgren schreef:

> 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