Why is the horse head called a Knight?
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Dec 26, 2016
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#3
It's part of a big conspiracy. I something goes wrong they say it's just a horse and they don't get any blame, but if things go right or they look smart, they say look at what I did.
don corleone made the namers an offer they couldn't refuse.
Dec 26, 2016
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#5
AlCzervik wrote:
don corleone made the namers an offer they couldn't refuse.
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horses are gallant like a knight.
and the bishop doesn't look like a bishop
For the same reason the castle top is called a rook. And the apple pie head is called a queen. Or for that matter, the piece with a golf ball on top is called a pawn.
Chess Variants. com says, "When Chess reached Europe, the concept behind Chess became a royal court rather than a battlefield, and the horse was rechristened as a Knight, which had a place in a royal court, and which normally rode upon a horse."
This is the link : http://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/knight.html
Solid thread! Ya gotta admit, it's a well-named piece. It can be tough as hell, while a reliable defender. As one would expect from their Knight.
I expect my Bishop to pray and ask for donations.
Dec 26, 2016
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#12
No te sorprendas, todos sabemos que a estos gringos les gusta inventar cosas mientras estan bajo el efecto de la heroina.
Dec 26, 2016
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#13
Americans should learn from Spanish speaking people, we actually call pieces for what they are, horses, towers and mmm, we call bishops with a word that means elephant in Arab. WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL PIECE IN THE SHAHMATE.
I find it interesting that the bishop was originally called "elephant". I wonder why it was called that. To me, if anything, the bishop kind of looks more like a knight considering the little slit near the top which makes the piece look like it has a face mask. But then again this is about knights not bishops.
Dec 26, 2016
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#15
Maybe because the game came from Persia/India and elephants were a part of the game?
Dec 26, 2016
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#16
I really dont know where the hell Brits and Americans got their translations from.
The "elephant" would have made sense for either rook or bishop... you can see a giant elephant charging in a straight line at full speed. Sure as hell ain't taking any turns.
Dec 26, 2016
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Outertale wrote:
actually, when the chess was invented Bishop was similar to elephant, it represented a unit that fought on an elephant during the war. Each piece represented a unit of an army. Queen was actually called vezir, vezir is a person who is the most highly ranked person in the country after the king, vezir is like an operator, supervisor and on chess board this piece represented the vezir.
I do not know which idiot confused it with a queen and then called it a queen who is totally unrelated to the concept of the vezir.
I find it interesting that the bishop was originally called "elephant". I wonder why it was called that. To me, if anything, the bishop kind of looks more like a knight considering the little slit near the top which makes the piece look like it has a face mask. But then again this is about knights not bishops.
I found some pictures of Persian chess pieces and the bishop was or looked like an elephant.
I mean seriously, its a no-brainer, its clearly a giant horse head, 0% human, 0% knight. Is there an invisible knight riding the horse or what?