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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