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Subject: Re: Elephant

Author: Benny Ng

Date: 09:32:47 03/26/01

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On March 26, 2001 at 00:34:16, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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
In Indonesian also. Bishop is called "Gajah (elephant)", knight is called "Kuda
(horse)". And Queen is called "Menteri (Minister!!!)".

Benny Ng



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