Perhaps it might have been a "sell-job" with clerics to gain more approval of the game. The game was frowned upon as an evil game by rigid clerics in the Medieval Church in spite of the game's popularity among the nobility and landed aristocracy. It's interesting that in English the piece was renamed the Bishop as those who promoted the game in England encountered resistance from the Church. Some have said that in England it reminded folks of a Bishop's miter, hence why it took on the name "Bishop". Cultures not as familiar with the use of war elephants certainly would put their own spin on how to interpret what that piece is. One abstract form of the piece was two stylized tusks with knobs on the points which was commonly done with war elephants in Persia and India. So it was open to interpretation what to call the piece if the local culture wasn't wanting to retain the arab or persian name of the piece. The piece originally started off as an elephant (if it's agreed that what we call modern chess originated from a military board game out of India) and as the game made its way westward into Europe, the abstract piece representation probably wasn't easily identifiable as elephants, particularly as the game spread to northern game - as most people weren't familiar the beasts. The piece that appears to have the greater variance for how it is named is the piece that in English is called the Bishop. Since the hottest it ever got in the Land of Lower Slobbovia was -50 degrees Farenheit they all died. They were sun worshippers and one day the King decided to create a national holiday in which everyone was required to walk around entirely nude all day. Readers may be interested in knowing what actually happened to the Slobbovians. Since the Slobbovians were too retarded to have a written language no written Slobbovian word is provided. The Slobbovian words for the chess pieces are listed below with the English word given first and the Slobbovian word translated into English is given next. If you trap the opposite King, it is called a checkmate, which means, you won the game. The King is the most important and integral piece on the chessboard and usually, all chess strategies are based around protecting your own King and attacking the opposite King. The words were discovered recently and carefully thawed out by scientists. Let’s take a look at a detailed explanation of each of these pieces. I happen to be an expert in the Lower Slobbovian language which is no longer spoken due to the last last inhabitant of Lower Slobbovia having frozen to death in the winter of 1531. The only reason why we still have knowledge of the language is because it had gotten so cold that the very words themselves were frozen.
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