I also threw in some other common chess terms so you can impress your foreign friends. Different from international chess, multiple pieces can promote in the Japanese. Heres how you can say every chess piece in 11 different languages. Previous AMAs | Previous Roundtables Featuresįeature posts are posted weekly. chess, this piece had many other names in different variants. May 25th | Panel AMA with /r/AskBibleScholars A Japanese publication in 1907 titled World Games Rules Complete Collection () describes the board game Reversi with the same rules as Othello where the first four pieces go in the center in a diagonal pattern and the player who cannot make a move simply passes. Please Subscribe to our Google Calendar for Upcoming AMAs and Events To nominate someone else as a Quality Contributor, message the mods.

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Japanese names for chess pieces