From: Chiaki Ito <shogi <at> MAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 16 mar 2001
Subject: Re: About the name of the pieces

Cant you just use Japanese names only?  It may be a bit hard in the
beginning for non-Japanese, but it will be easier without any confusion for
the rest of your life!

I dont call a Queen in Chess as Jyou Ou!

Chiaki

At 13:02 01/03/15 +0100, you wrote:
> 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
>