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Wait until they learn how we call their precious precious bishop in French! :^)

I didn’t realize different languages had different meanings for the piece. That’s fascinating.
- I like the way Estonia and the ocean have the same name for it.
That's exactly what I was going to say 🤣
Pretty sure it's original name translates to elephant in English, and is still called that in many countries.
Now I'm picturing a deep fried Joker meme with him wearing that silly hat

Fun fact is that this piece isn't even called bishop in other languages. In french it's called fool. And both are wrong if you compare to the original indian game

yeah that's the elephant in a lot of eastern countries.
In Spanish is called alfil, derived from the Arabic for "elephant".
Yeah in chess's Asian cousins the equivalent piece is usually an advisor or general. And then there's Japan, where they just call it "angle-mover".
(Worth noting that it's by far the most blandly named shogi piece. Rooks, for example are "flying chariots".)

This is my favorite reply to chess dot cum's tweet:

Source

chess dot cum
- you heard that right

that’s not even the best one lol

Pointer and pretzel are the only acceptable names moving forward

I didn't know I was an atheist gay race communist.

Nice.

i don’t remember what this image is can someone clue me in lol /genuine
- Mr game & watch
- Mr. Game & Watch. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but he might be the first "video game character" ever created?

Pedobear?

Also Epstein didn't kill himself. Where are the files?

In my language it's called Runner anyway (Läufer).

We either call it runner (tekač/laufar) or ~~jumper (skakač)~~ hunter (lovec) don't know which one is the officially accepted name.
Edit: the horse is indeed the jumper I messed up.
- Interesting. In Germany we call the horse jumper.
- Pretty sure the jumper is the horse.
- Jumper
  That's interesting considering the knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces

The term "bishop" as applied specifically to the chess piece was first recorded in the 16th century, with the first known written example dating back to the 1560s.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(chess)

The name bishop came along fairly late in the game.

sometimes I forget how old chee is that saying 'fairly late' had me thinking 1900s not middle ages

My new name for it is the gay atheist sorry.

Just to piss that guy off, I'd support calling it a Dawkins

Nah, Dawkins was buddies with Epstein.
- You have any proof of that?
  You maybe confusing Epsteins here? All I can find is he once talked to Rafael Epstein

Ink pen.

In France it is called 'the fool'.

The drag queen

The zoidberg claw.

Bishop and Heterosexual Bishop

Bi-Shop and Straight-Shop

honestly shocked kiki recognised the black one as a bishop

Bottle opener

The slittyboi.

Babe wake up, new term for pre-op trans men just dropped.

Vizier

Vizier is queen, isn't it?
Sluggy Freelance had a pretty good and extensive storyline about this, but I guess the comic never really got indexed because my searches are returning nothing.
So I guess you should just read Sluggy Freelance in its entirety, or at least until you find the relevant storyline.