Chess Words in Different Languages

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Lord-Chaos

English German FrenchItalianSpanish
Chess Schach echecs scacchi ajedrez
Pawn Bauer pion pedone peon
Knight Springer cavalier cavallo caballo
Bishop Laufer fou alfiere alfil
Rook Turm tour torre torre
Queen Dame dame donna dama
King Konig roi re rey
White Weiss blancs bianco blancas
Black Schwarz noirs nero negras
Check Schach echec scacco jaque
Mate! Matt echec et mat scacco matto jaque mate
Draw remis nulle patta tablas
Resign aufgaben abandonner abbandonare abandonar

Hope this helps you on your holidays or Foreign Tournaments... as if. Thats pretty rare. Everyone knows English anyway yes? Sorry non-English people! Embarassed
Anyway thought you might find this intresting so i posted it. Enjoy.

ichabod801

What I think would be more useful around here is a list of how to say "good luck," "good game," and that sort of thing in different languages. Then, after being pounded by some guy from Spain, I could say "bueno juego" (or whatever is correct, my high school Spanish is a bit rusty).

Lord-Chaos

=P i think you play very well is
juege (?) muy bueno, or juegas? dunno. juego,juegas,juega,jugamos,jugais,juagan. aaah thats it. so its juegas!
so its juegas bueno. or for more effect, juegas buenisimo (add isimo to make it "very", and much more spanishy).

Vlandian_Knight

More info, zombie thread revived:

http://www.shakki.net/kerhot/KemTS/nap-pieces.htm