names of chess pieces in different languages

#Names of chess pieces in different languages update#

The original book is dataed 1976, so gives Jugoslavian and Czechoslovak with letters resp. Bijl I found ( to start with ) the following six Russian terms : King - Koról, Queen - Fjerz', Rook - Lad'já Bishop - Slon, Knight - Kon', Pawn - Pjéska.Īnd also important are the letters used in foreign analyses, for successively King, Queen, Rook, Bishop and Knight :īulgarian Tz D T O K Russian Kp/Kr F L C/S K Perhaps somebody can give the cyrillic letters for Bulgarian Tz and D and for Russian F and L, I dont have them in my computer ( I think).ĭanish K D T L S German K D T L S English K Q R B Kt/N French R D T F C Hungarian K V B F H Italian R D T A C Dutch K D T L P Norwegian K D T B S Polish K H W G S Portugese R D T B C Rumanian R D T N C Spanish R D T A C Swedish K D T L S Knight - skakač (meaning jumper), or konj (meaning horse)

Queen - dama (meaning madame) or kraljica ( meaning queen ) Hungarian (the words in parenthesis are widely used, maybe more often than the official names)

#Names of chess pieces in different languages update#

When somebody is posting the translation I will update this post Post the translation in your native language of the following chess terms: This should be funny and it's very simple.