translation of 2 chess references

[Deborah Hoffman]

If this helps, a pawn cannot jump from b4 to b6; it is only permitted to move two rows at once the first time it leaves the edge of the board. I might say "right up to" which indicates movement across the board away from one player and towards the other rather than "right over to" which seems more like right to left movement. I cannot read the original text, however, to know what the author's intent was. Which leads into a non-chess question...
   
  Periodically I receive Cyrillic text on the list that I am absolutely unable to read no matter what I change my encoding to - Unicode, Cyrillic Windows, or KOI8-U and -R; I have even tried Cyrillic ISO and Cyrillic DOS. It looks like capital letters, numbers, and equal signs scrunched together. I thought I remembered someone offering a method of converting using a copy and paste method, and would be very grateful to be reminded of how to do this.
   
  Thanks in advance,
  Deborah
   
   
  Date:    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:47:35 -0400
From:    Krystyna and Nory Steiger <steiger at CAN.ROGERS.COM>
Subject: translation of 2 chess references

Hello SEELANGERS,
there are a couple of chess references in my P'etsukh text I'm not
quite =
sure of.  I know that pawns can become queens under certain =
circumstances.  ..
In the novel, two characters who are enemies discover they both love =
chess. They play for a few hours running:=20
"... =D1=81=D0=BD=D0=B0=D1=87=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=B8 =
=D0=BD=D0=B5=D0=BC=D0=BD=D0=BE=D0=B3=D0=BE =
=D0=BF=D0=BE=D1=86=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B8=D1=81=D1=8C, =
=D0=BF=D0=BE=D1=81=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8C=D0=BA=D1=83 =
=D0=94=D1=83=D1=88=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=BD =D0=B8 =
=D0=A4=D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=B4=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=B2=D1=8F=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=BD=D1=83
=
=D0=BE=D0=B1=D1=8A=D1=8F=D0=B2=D0=B8=D0=BB =D0=BE =
=D1=81=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B8=D1=85 =
=D0=BF=D1=80=D0=B5=D1=82=D0=B5=D0=BD=D0=B7=D0=B8=D1=8F=D1=85 =
=D0=BD=D0=B0 =
=D0=BE=D1=81=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B1=D0=BE=D0=B4=D0=B8=D0=B2=D1=88=D1=83=D1=8E=D1=
=81=D1=8F =D0=B6=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BF=D0=BB=D0=BE=D1=89=D0=B0=D0=BB=D1=8C,
=
=D0=BD=D0=BE =D1=81=D0=BB=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=BE =D0=B7=D0=B0 =
=D1=81=D0=BB=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=BE, =D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=B8 =
=D0=B4=D0=BE=D0=B3=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=BE=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=B8=D1=81=D1=8C


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