Gender of pieces

pawns have a boob on top.

well my queen usually protects every piece i have on the board, without her i lose everything. she is the one that keeps my line strong. 

the way the pawn captures e.p. is a bit like how the female spider gobbles up the male, num num num num, after nooky and uses his body to generate hundreds of baby spiders, quite possibly where the inspiration for mass production came from.

So, to me the queen is kind of a male because really it's only in Europe that they called it "Queen". I am sure most people here know this. If you trace chess variants into different Asian countries , Middle East, and Russia (whether you start in India or China) the piece that functions as the "queen" has always been referred to as the palace guard or advisor. It is the Vizier in Muslim countries, Fierz in Russia, king's palace guard in Chinese chess, or generals in Shogi. Always some kind of male role.

There is also no reason to assume pawns are female. They represent either the foot soldier or a farmer in different languages. Although the word is feminine in Russian it's still used in the same form whether referring to men or women. It generally refers to someone who is used and discarded by someone else. Similar meaning in Eastern European languages is given to card whose number is 6 in decks of 36 cards. 6 is the lowest throw away card. Still usually it's implied it's male even if the word is in feminine form.

The king basically sits back and does nothing, hence it's a male. The queen multi-tasks. Need I say any more? 

Bishop, Knight, Rook, and King are male. Queen is female. Pawn is debatable.

On a related note... is the knight piece a just horse or a human on a horse?

lol

I always thought of the knight as cavalry. In many languages outside of English, as well as in other variants of chess, the knight is called a horse. But since each piece represents a type of army then it's cavalry. In India the bishop is origubally cavalry on camel. In Russia they mistakingly began calling bishop piece as elephant and sometimes a knight (they call actual knight horse). But I think chess actually originated in China. In Chinese chess the piece analogous to the bishop is elephant and advisor. The word in Chinese is the same.

macer75 wrote:

On a related note... is the knight piece a just horse or a human on a horse?

I blame all of this confusion on pokemon allowing Mr Mime to be female

Lol I've often wondered, if you could get them to stop being so contrarian to everything what the honest feminist position on the rules of chess would be... I mean the (male) king has infinite value, compared to the queen which can be sacrificed with impunity, you can also gain as many as 8 more making the king a potential #pigmalepolygamist. On the other hand the point of chess is basically to usher him off to the courner like a good little boy whilst skilled use of the queen is key to winning the game.

The same way g*y couples do..  😊

note: *=a

In Russian, only the rooks and pawns have feminine grammatical gender. (Although the word for queen (ferz) is masculine, this piece is often called "queen" or sometimes "lady". Of course, queen is usually depicted as woman (either in some souvenir chess sets which use human-shaped pieces, or in various chess-related arts).) 

I think rook is genderless, because it is a tower, queen is female, king is male, bishop may be male, knights are also genderless, and i do not know about pawns.

Nah, they are all male.  One of them went drag!

all female except queen. pawns are a princess waiting to become queen,or any other piece so other pieces are female too, reason why can't become king

pawn = male/female

bishop = female

knight = male

rook = genderless

Kings are male; queens are female. Obviously.

Bishops are clergy. Traditionally male and exclusively so at the time chess was invented.

Knights are male almost exclusively. Maybe one of the black knights is Joan of Arc, but I still call them male.

Rooks are siege engines. Genderless.

And pawns, pawns are baby queens. Female.

That is how I've always regarded the pieces. Yes, I have thought of this before.