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Subject: Re: Chess pieces in Spanish

Author: José Carlos

Date: 23:48:24 01/12/01

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On January 12, 2001 at 15:55:03, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On January 12, 2001 at 15:33:25, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2001 at 15:18:49, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>Please excuse me for posting this here, but I need to get an answer asap.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know what the chess pieces are called in Spanish, and what their
>>>abbreviations are (PNBRQK)?  Please include the diacritical marks if possible
>>>(the dots and doohickies over the letters).
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>English         Spanish
>>P pawn          P peon
>>N knight        C cavalo
>>B biship        A alafia
>>R rook          T torre
>>Q queen         D dama
>>K king          R rei
>>
>>Chess           Ajadrez
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>Regards,
>>
>>Laurence
>
>Thank you.  And by typing in the first few as a web search, I found this:
>
>http://www-ensimag.imag.fr/eleves/Stephane.Faure/dico.html
>
>bruce

  Some more translations (missing in the web):

  - adjournment      - aplazamiento
  - amateur          - aficionado
  - analyse          - análisis (noun), analizar (verb)
  - advantage        - ventaja
  - strong           - fuerte ("bueno" in the web page is used as well)
  - pin              - clavada
  - file             - columna
  - rank             - fila (note that file != fila)
  - combination      - combinación
  - counter attack   - contraataque
  - counterplay      - contrajuego
  - discovered check - descubierta, jaque a la descubierta
  - development      - desarrollo
  - diagonal         - diagonal
  - change           - cambio
  - to change        - cambiar
  - balance          - equilibrio
  - en passant       - al paso
  - mistake          - error, fallo
  - weak             - débil
  - fork             - doble (not exactly, we usually say "un doble de caballo",
and that means "a knight fork")
  - blunder          - error grave
  - initiative       - iniciativa
  - isolated         - aislado
  - to play          - jugar
  - threat           - amenaza
  - stalemate        - ahogado (or "rey ahogado")
  - break            - ruptura
  - permanent check  - jaque continuo, jaque perpetuo
  - trap             - trampa
  - point            - punto
  - position         - posición
  - to capture       - capturar, tomar (in some places: "comer")
  - exchange         - calidad
  - sealed move      - jugada sellada
  - variation        - variante

  Hope this helps,

  José C.



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