Checkmate, nerds

Sir Gallahop

If it helps, some languages have different words for it.

In Norwegian, we call it «hest» (horse) or «springer» (jumper).

I won a silver medal in chess when I was a kid and played chess for most of my life and I still call it horse tbh

On the other hand, it could be that’s because in my language, the word for horse is 3 syllables while the word for knight is 4 and has terrible sonority

Anyway, horse go neighhhhhhh

Equine to E5.

Whoever you’re playing with wasn’t there when they named it a knight, I can guarantee you that

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They have 32 pieces… only 8 have a semi-normal shape… and they called it “knight & rook” instead of “horse & tower”

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The knight is colloquially sometimes referred to as a “horse”, which is also the translation of the piece’s name in several languages: Spanish caballo, Italian cavallo, Russian конь, etc. Some languages refer to it as the “jumper”, reflecting the knight’s ability to move over pieces in its path: Polish skoczek, Danish/Norwegian springer, Swedish springare, German Springer, Luxembourgish Sprénger, Slovene skakač. In Sicilian it is called sceccu, a slang term for a donkey, derived from the Arabic sheikh, who during the Islamic period rode from village to village on donkeys collecting taxes.[11]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_(chess)

That’s what it’s called in Brazilian Portuguese: the horse.

Also, the rook is called the tower, because that’s what it is, goddamnit

I like to cry, “Artax! Stupid horse!” when my horses are removed from the board.

You evidently don’t know many nerds, Sridhar.

We’re *way* more likely to see Fluttershy with “huge tracts of land” as a knight, than to have someone get all in a huff over misnaming the horsey.

I call him Dwight

King, Queen, 2 horses, 2 whistles, 2 castles and 8 nipples.

Chess players call the knight a horse all the time.

I **THREW IT ON THE GROUND**….THAT’S NOT A KNIGHT, THAT’S A **HORSE**!