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Unrelated, but I just realized the horse is not in fact called "horse" like it is in Italian/Spanish.

• tauchunfall 3y ago
  It is called "Springer" (translates to: jumper) in German. Sometimes "Pferd" or "Ross" is also used (translates to: horse and steed, resp.). That's why "Knight's tour" is called "Springerproblem" or "Rösselsprung" (from "Ross") in German.
  • NeoTar 3y ago
    Hence the German academic publisher, Springer, which uses a knight as it's logo. (Not to be confused with the much larger Axel-Springer publishers, nor the American academic Springer publisher.)
• jorisboris 3y ago
  Or Dutch
• ambigious7777 3y ago
  When I was younger, I always believed that the proper name was for the knight was "horse" (my primary language is English). I only figured it out when I was playing chess against my friend, and he was like, "horse? wth is that"
• WJW 3y ago
  It's been weird/amusing observing how different age groups at my local chess clubs call pieces and concepts. The older group very much stays to the local Dutch terminology for both while the younger group (presumably influenced by youtube) tends to mix Dutch piece names with English concepts. So you can have a koning (king) that is being "skewered" by a koningin (Queen) on the tweede (second) rank.