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What is the accepted, or “official” terminology, to refer to the objects that we move around the chess board?
Oct 2, 2018
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mskjr47 wrote:
What is the accepted, or “official” terminology, to refer to the objects that we move around the chess board?
Is this a trick question? Chess pieces? Or maybe fidget pieces, for the nervous types...
My post is not meant to be a “trick”. I have been having a discussion with some folks who use the term “men”. I am saying that those of us involved in the current chess world us the term “pieces” to reflect the more inclusive game we are promoting, as well as acknowledging the most powerful piece is not a “man”.
Oct 2, 2018
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mskjr47 wrote:
My post is not meant to be a “trick”. I have been having a discussion with some folks who use the term “men”. I am saying that those of us involved in the current chess world us the term “pieces” to reflect the more inclusive game we are promoting, as well as acknowledging the most powerful piece is not a “man”.
Nor is the most powerful piece a woman, I mean really being concerned about the supposed gender of a chess piece?
mskjr47 wrote:
My post is not meant to be a “trick”. I have been having a discussion with some folks who use the term “men”. I am saying that those of us involved in the current chess world us the term “pieces” to reflect the more inclusive game we are promoting, as well as acknowledging the most powerful piece is not a “man”.
If your Q is captured the game can continue.
If your K is in check and cannot be protected/moved to prevent capture on the next move then the game is over.
Sounds like the K is the most powerful piece since without him game cannot continue.
And I use the terms interchangeably. Pieces, men, who cares.
Oct 2, 2018
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"Pieces" is the correct term; but be careful, because pieces usually does not include pawns - which are called "pawns": Why? Who knows? Eh go figure ...
Yes it is called pieces. You can find the term pieces countless number of times in FIDE Laws of Chess and here it covers all 32 pieces.
The following quote from FIDE Laws of Chess, Article 2 is an example:
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At the beginning of the game White has 16 light-coloured pieces (the ‘white’ pieces); Black has 16 dark-coloured pieces (the ‘black’ pieces). |
Link: https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=208&view=article
KeSetoKaiba is correct that people sometimes (or often) use the term "pieces" to not include the pawns.