Comments on: history of chess pieces

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:00:04 +0000

asian lesbians girls pee in shower wet pants golden shower gay piss http://www.etymonline.com:
“lowly chess piece,” 1369, from Anglo-Fr. poun, O.Fr. peon, earlier pehon, from M.L. pedonem “foot soldier,” from L.L. pedonem (nom. pedo) “one going on foot,” from L. pes (gen. pedis) “foot” (see foot). The chess sense was in O.Fr. by 13c. Fig. use, of persons, is from 1589.
Or not.

By: leslie

leslie — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:09:43 +0000

alright katherine i have a question…if the queen wasn’t in the original game what was there in her place how did they keep the board even??? did they have two kings???

By: leslie

leslie — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:09:38 +0000

alright katherine i have a question…if the queen wasn’t in the original game what was there in her place how did they keep the board even??? did they have to kings???

By: Govert Westerveld

Govert Westerveld — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:16:58 +0000

Marilyn Yalom with their latest book

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:28:00 +0000

Yeah, I remember being 17 or 18 in Edinburgh and thinking that’s what grownups did for a living… collect fun stories and tell them to random teenagers in pubs. Heh.

By: Hamish

Hamish — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:06:03 +0000

I miss Kays. Or the Antiq.
Sitting inside on a long lazy winter afternoon with the sun streaming through a pint of fizzy industrial lager, striving to get the perception level down until the shite that the guy next to you was telling you seemed profound. In those days I was young, and that was about two pints.
Those voices! All smokers with tones that an ad man would dream of, all ethnic sincerity, and damn plausible. Everything was fine, in that little world, then you stepped out of the door, and the magic vanished.
There you were, on the street in the cold, and it suddenly occurred to you that it wasn’t possible to solve the world’s ills from the stool in the pub. But by God that didn’t stop them making some epic attempts.
Now, you have to be more or less unconscious not to notice the fact that these guys are lovable idiots.
Not to say that a stopped clock can’t tell the right time twice a day, because that chess story is interesting, if not especially plausible, at least it shows an interest in why it’s such a good game.
That’s another sign of the 21st century. I lost interest in chess about the time that my mobile phone starting winning against me…

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:37 +0000

Ummm.… Jefferson, the decline I’m talking about started in about 500 A.D. and lasted for about 1000 years.
Western European naval warfare had very little innovation in that time frame. Refinement of Hellenic methods (i.e galley slaves), and litle else. Spain, Europe’s biggest navy in 1587, was still using galleys.
That all changed with the advent of gunpowder, of course.…

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:54:35 +0000

I really like this history. I am passing along to my Dad. Every Thanksgiving we play and 2001 I beat him. Oh how I relish that day.

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:51:28 +0000

This is fun — except for the bit about naval warfare going into decline after the fall of the Roman Empire. Not exactly. Naval Warfare didn’t even reach its zenith until the 20th century. So how about after World War II, just a few years later?

By: Basileios

Basileios — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:01:57 +0000

Why must everything translate to the corporate world? Let things be, cherish the past and move on. After all, as Froyd said ‘sometimes a hanger is just a hanger’

By: J.P.

J.P. — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:52:50 +0000

So how does this translate to the modern world? i.e. the corporate world??

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:28:18 +0000

Well there ya go!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:31:25 +0000

Actually, the queen didn’t even exist in Indian or Arab chess. She was a southern European addition around 1000 AD, and was a very weak piece until 1500 AD or so. Cf. Birth of the Chess Queen : A History, by Marilyn Yalom.