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The problem is that we want names with distinct first letter for the simple chess notation and "horse" and "queen" conflict with "king" and each other.

• oefnak 3y ago
  Unlike knight and king, you mean?
  • Bootvis 3y ago
    You can’t always get what you want :) Luckily the K in knight is silent so it is a minor leap to denote it with N.