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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Bishop pieces are called camels in some Indian languages.

Rooks are elephants and Queen is advisor.

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 months ago

Interesting, in Ukrainian, bishop is the elephant

[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

Wait, what the fuck? Bishop is an English (and Portuguese) thing and not a Catholic thing?

this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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