Could there have been a translation mishap? Rukh is Persian for “chariot,” while roka is Sanskrit for “boat” (but no early chess piece was ever called roka). What is more puzzling is that the rook is called “ship” (or “boat”) in some other languages, including Russian ( lad’já) and Armenian ( navak). With a good old-fashioned siege in mind, it is not such a big leap from castles and towers to “cannon,” which is what the piece is called throughout the Balkans. The elephant eventually disappeared, while the (Persian) name stuck. In a sense, the symbolic representation of an Indian battlefield turned into a sublimated form of medieval tournament.Ī third idea is that the people carrier on the back of elephants in India, called a howdah and used in war to attack opponents, was often represented as a fortified castle tower in chess pieces from 16 th– and 17 th-century Europe. Yet it also underwent some subtle and not-so-subtle tweaks. (See Strange Maps # 844 for an itinerary of the game and an overview of its various names across the world.)Īs it moved west toward Europe - first passing through the Persian and Arab cultural filters - the game maintained its board, pieces, and most of its rules. It first emerged in India in the early 7 th century as chaturanga, finally reaching Iceland as skák around 1600 AD. Chaturanga to skákĬhess took a millennium to conquer the known world. What you may call a bishop, somebody else knows as an elephant. But scratch the surface and the standardized game reveals a multitude of linguistic particularities. In the Chinese example, Mandarin and Cantonese speakers can read and understand the same text, even though they use different words for the same concepts.Ĭhess too is perfectly intelligible by participants who share no other communication skills. ( Credit: Foto Olimpik / NurPhoto via Getty Images)Ī game of chess is like a Chinese newspaper: a set of symbols that can be understood by people who speak different languages. You will really enjoy the feeling of playing with these wonderful chess sets.Russia’s Vladislav Artemiev and Alina Bivol ( background) during the FIDE Chess World Rapid & Blitz Championship 2021 in Warsaw on December 29. You can also buy chess pieces with matching chess board in our chess set combo. You can have chess pieces made from the finest and exotic woods including ebony, rosewood, bud rosewood, Sheesham, Red sandalwood, and bone chess pieces.ĭepending upon your budget you can choose a set from different price ranges such as economy, mid-range, and luxury. Our chess pieces come in a wide range of styles and budgets be in tournament chess pieces, plastic chess pieces or luxury chess pieces. Serious chess players and chess collectors prefer Wooden chess sets. These are some of the reasons for the popularity of chess pieces in wood especially the Staunton chess pieces. No material can match the touch and feel of solid wooden weighted chess pieces. Chessbazaar has been the pioneer in the reproduction of antique chess sets and our reproductions of historical chess sets like Jaques Reproduction, Soviet Reproductions, European Timeless Collection which have been immensely popular with the collector communityĮven though the chess pieces are available in many materials like glass, stone, bone, ivory, and market is flooded with plastic chess pieces but still, wooden chess pieces are among the most popular ones for centuries.
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