Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 05:42:02 01/13/01
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On January 13, 2001 at 02:48:24, José Carlos wrote:
>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.
I might have missed it, but an important word seems to be missing:
board tablero
chessboard tablero de ajedrez
José.
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