huh I was thinking about and some of the names of chess pieces

It's a rook, not a rock.

Knight rides horses, tower are made from rocks.

>>50611728
A knight is a mounted warrior.
"Rook" is actually borrowed from Persian.

>>50611728
>rock
it's a rook, not rock.

>>50611767
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>>50611782
ah ok my bad, still my logic makes more sense doesn't it?

>>50611778
so is alfil or elephant, I will never understand the bishop? faggy priest v. elephant.

>>50611875
In Spanish we say alfil but I never thought about it, must be an Arabic word

>>50611875
If your bishops are fops thats your problem. Get some that fuck heretics up.

Basic answer is that pieces would have originally been more detailed. Also because I think that chess is something that has been adapted down the ages and partially across cultures in the pieces used.

>>50611728
Rook.

A large crow-like bird, famed for being present at most battlefields.

>>50611728
the knight was known for being mounted on a horse, some more detailed sets show a man riding

the rook is a siege tower, a large wheeled tower used to storm castles

In some slavic languages, especially eastern slavic group the rook is called as what basically translates as "longboat".

>>50611728
Yeah, I like the german ones better.
Bauer, Springer, Läufer, Turm, Dame, König.

>>50611728
In russian, rooks are called "лaдья", which is a boat. I see a tower and I'm told "a boat". Also, a queen is "ferz", which is actually "ferzin", persian for "vizier". The "knight" is a "horse", and the "bishop" is an "elephant" (though during the USSR, it was known as the "officer" sometimes).

>>50613865
that's very interesting haha thanks for sharing!

>>50611875
>>50612080
Alphin was used in english up until the XVIth century

In Dutch we call the rook toren, tower. We call bishops loper, which literally translates to walker. They're however also called councilor or bishop (raadsheer and bisschop respectively)

>>50611824
No, you appear to be retarded.

In French the rook is called Tour (Tower), and the bishop is called Fou (Fool)