Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:34:16 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 21:15:19, Mark Ryan wrote: >On March 25, 2001 at 04:42:14, Mike S. wrote: > >>On March 25, 2001 at 04:06:13, Severi Salminen wrote: >> >>>Why write a message with subject line that doesn't say anything about the >>>contents of the message? The subject line _has a function_. >> >>But it works for people which are courious (like me, I immediatly wanted to know >>what's the matter with the elephant. Is there one which can play chess. Now I'm >>disappointed :o) >> >>Regards, >>M.Scheidl > >Don't be disappointed. It was obviously a reference to the fact that the >original game, chaturanga, featured elephants :) >http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html >Cheers, >Mark :) In Russian chess pieces also have more "animal" names. Bishop is called "elephant", knight is named "horse". Eugene
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