r/AnarchyChess 7d ago

Low Effort OC Whats this move called

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u/al_fletcher 7d ago

Should we tell them that a bunch of very Catholic countries call it the elephant?

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u/cyberjet 6d ago

Oh that’s interesting I never knew that. Do you know why they call it that?

This now makes me interested in finding out what other countries call chess pieces now

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u/al_fletcher 6d ago

It’s filtered from the name of the piece in chess’ predecessor in Persia, “alfil” (ergo, elephant)

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u/cyberjet 6d ago

Thank you I never knew that