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At least for Spanish, a majority of the maps are utterly wrong.


I don't see how 4 (or more) out of 6 would be wrong. Are you from Spain? Perhaps there's variations in the Spanish speaking world?

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezas_de_ajedrez


The only ones that I might consider off, but not straight up wrong are:

Elephant -> Alfil * (The words originates from arabic for elephant, but it means specifically this piece of chess)

Lady -> Reina/Dama * (You could use either, but the article lists them separately and doesn't recognize Queen, which is the more common of the two)


> Lady -> Reina/Dama * (You could use either, but the article lists them separately and doesn't recognize Queen, which is the more common of the two)

I think the reason is that the article follows the FIDE rules rather than colloquial use.

I was about the comment something similar about Dutch, where the word for Queen (“Koningin”) is also more common than the official FIDE-term Lady (“Dame”). I suspect the reason for this choice is that the FIDE also establishes an official chess notation where each piece has a single letter abbreviation. In Dutch this presents the problem that “Koning” (King) is a prefix of “Koningin” (Queen), so it makes sense to abbreviate king with K, but it's not clear what letter to assign to the Queen. It makes sense then to switch to “Dame” and use the letter D for this piece.

I think the same thing applies to Romance languages where the words for King and Queen derive from the Latin words Rex and Regina (Roi and Reine in French, Rey and Reina in Spanish, etc.), all of which start with the letter 'R'. Then switching to Lady (dame/dama) for the Queen makes sense just to create a unique letter.


Similarly, “rook” only means the chess piece in English, but England is labeled as having it mean chariot. So the “alfil” example is consistent.


It's also a species of bird (Corvus frugilegus) but the two senses are unrelated.




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