Re: Affirmative Action
Posted: 21 Sep 2022, 15:43
The Courier game, which shall have existed c 1206, if I remember correctly, had ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_chess
The Couriers are very strong figures, Schleich and Wise Man are both weak. The document of c1206 is the Wigalois and this has the courier game as a sort of chess for the ladies of the court without description. A next note appears 1290-1300, chess poem of Heinrich Beringen.
A real description of the Courier game appears in a work of 1337, the Cessolis version of Ammenhausen.
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Persian chess ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj
Alfil is a Persian chess expression, the Italian "Alfiere" developed from it. It doesn't really disturb, that the Italians understood finally a "Fahnenträger" in the chess figure.
>Also it does not hurt much, that the elephant was interpreted as a rook in Courier chess and not as a bow shooter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_chess
12 officers, from which 6 (c, d, e and h, i, j) are somehow children of the Persian alfil, the bishops (as bow-shooters) identical to the Persian Alfil, the Couriers are identical to the German Läufer and modern Bishop, the sage presents the wise man or the Adviser of Cessolis, the Schleich is the French Fou.The back rank pieces from left to right are rook (a), knight (b), bishop (c), courier (d), sage (e), king (f), queen (g), schleich (h), courier (i), bishop (j), knight (k), rook (l). The forward rank pieces in columns (a)–(l) are all pawns.
The Couriers are very strong figures, Schleich and Wise Man are both weak. The document of c1206 is the Wigalois and this has the courier game as a sort of chess for the ladies of the court without description. A next note appears 1290-1300, chess poem of Heinrich Beringen.
A real description of the Courier game appears in a work of 1337, the Cessolis version of Ammenhausen.
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Persian chess ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj
Alfil is a Persian chess expression, the Italian "Alfiere" developed from it. It doesn't really disturb, that the Italians understood finally a "Fahnenträger" in the chess figure.
>Also it does not hurt much, that the elephant was interpreted as a rook in Courier chess and not as a bow shooter.