<story><title>How did the chess pieces get their names?</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>There is some in-country variation that&amp;#x27;s ignored in this article. In Poland, names of pieces will vary based on family you come from (as this game is usually learnt at kindergarten age from your parents&amp;#x2F;grandparents). For example, in my family we refer to the knight as &amp;quot;koń&amp;quot; (horse) rather than &amp;quot;skoczek&amp;quot; (jumper), and instead of using the more Polish-sounding &amp;quot;goniec&amp;quot; for the bishop we use &amp;quot;laufer&amp;quot; borrowed from German. Also, even though the official (as in: approved by some chess institutions in the country) name for the queen is &amp;quot;hetman&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;d say 90%+ Poles say &amp;quot;królowa&amp;quot; (literally queen).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riffraff</author><text>That is similar in Hungary, for example the pawn is either a walker or a peasant, and the queen is either a visir or a queen (but it&amp;#x27;s a ruling queen, királynő, rather than queen consort, királyné, which I find nice :) )</text></comment>
<story><title>How did the chess pieces get their names?</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>There is some in-country variation that&amp;#x27;s ignored in this article. In Poland, names of pieces will vary based on family you come from (as this game is usually learnt at kindergarten age from your parents&amp;#x2F;grandparents). For example, in my family we refer to the knight as &amp;quot;koń&amp;quot; (horse) rather than &amp;quot;skoczek&amp;quot; (jumper), and instead of using the more Polish-sounding &amp;quot;goniec&amp;quot; for the bishop we use &amp;quot;laufer&amp;quot; borrowed from German. Also, even though the official (as in: approved by some chess institutions in the country) name for the queen is &amp;quot;hetman&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;d say 90%+ Poles say &amp;quot;królowa&amp;quot; (literally queen).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wirrbel</author><text>German here, next to Springer (jumper) for the bishop in my family “Ross” or “rössl” was used.</text></comment>