translation of 2 chess references
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Thu Jul 31 03:41:58 UTC 2008
On Jul 30, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Krystyna and Nory Steiger wrote:
>
> Sorry, can't address your first question except to say that a pawn
> that reaches the opposite end of the board may be replaced with any
> piece of the owner's choice (except of course a king; there can
> only be one king). Under normal circumstances, the queen being the
> most powerful piece, the player chooses a queen.
Right. But the "queen" is usually called ферзь. That is chess players
would call her ферзь, non-players would call her королева.
Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington DC. 20016
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aisrael at american.edu
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