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Carolus Rex
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Sweden
Jan 1970
time: 06:13
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Ok, here we go.
"Pawns" are called "bφnder", which is Swedish for "peasants/farmers".
"Rook" is called "torn", which is the Swedish word for "tower".
The "knight" is called "springare" or (more commonplace) "hδst". Both words means "horse", although "springare" is a more elegant (and ancient or oldfashioned) word than "hδst". For example, a noble knight or king rides on a "springare", whereas peasants use "hδstar" to ride or plow with. Today, you say that a king rides a "hδst". "Springare" is mostly found in old books and such and is not used anymore.
The "bishop" is indeed called "lφpare", which means exactly the same thing as the German word: someone who runs. In the old days "lφpa" was the common verb for "run", today "springa" is used more often. "Lφpare" is what we call the athletes who run, i.e. a long distance runner (for example 10 000 meters or marathon) is called a "lεngdistanslφpare".
"Drottning" is "queen", but we also use "dam" ("lady"). "Kung" is "king".
Gotta go!
Carolus
[This message has been edited by Carolus Rex (edited February 01, 2001).]
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Ken Hinds
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kcbob, Welcome to the club. It did the same type of thing in my game with Julius. I sure would be nice if we recognized these errors before we published our moves.
A question for those who have played with some of non-standard set designs. As noted in most English/U.S. based designs where the pieces look like people you have Infantry(often a spearman or swordsman) for pawns, a mounted rider for knights, and a cleric of some type for the bishops as well as the usual King, Queen and Tower. For those sets based on the French or Germanic piece designations (German also calls the Knight a Springer, for the horse and not the rider) do we then get King's Fools, runners, and peasants?
Ken
Edit to fix typos
[This message has been edited by Ken Hinds (edited February 02, 2001).]
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