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Origins of chess
There is a theory that this name replacement happened because, before the game
of chess came to Europe, merchants coming to Europe brought ornamental chess
kings as curiosities and with them their name sha-h, which Europeans mispronounced
in various ways.
* Checkmate: This is the English rendition of sha-h ma-t, which is Persian
for "the king is finished".
* Rook: From Sanskrit "Rath" which means "chariot", or the
Persian rukh which means "chariot" or "cheek" (part of the
face). The piece resembles a siege tower. It is also believed that it was named
after the mythical Persian bird of great power called the roc. In India, the
piece is more popularly called haathi, which means "elephant".
* Bishop. From the Persian pi-l means "the elephant", but in Europe
and the western part of the Islamic world people knew little or nothing about
elephants, and the name of the chessman entered Western Europe as Latin alfinus
and similar, a word with no other meaning (in Spanish, for example, it evolved
to the name "alfil"). This word "alfil" is actually the
Arabic for "elephant", where "al" means "the"
and fil means "elephant". The Spanish word would most certainly have
been taken from the Islamic provinces of Spain. The English name "bishop"
is a rename inspired by the conventional shape of the piece which resembles
the tusk of an elephant and the mitre of a bishop.
* Queen. Persian farzi-n = "vizier" became Arabic firza-n, which entered
western European languages as forms such as alfferza, fers, etc but was later
replaced by "queen".
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