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chess notation in Irish, Swahili and other lang's - 2006/10/27 23:54
Ari Luiro's excellent website <http://www.geocities.com/TimesaSquare/Metro/9154/nap-pieces.htm> gives the names of the chess peices in 60 languages. As an alternative im curious as to how duplicate letters are resolved when writying chess notation in various languages. As we say (For example, the English standard N for knight since K is used for kin, or Russain "Kp" ["kr"] for "korol'", king, since K is used for "kon'", knight.)
I ask about Irish in particular since three (!) of the 5 pieces start with "R": the kin is "Ri", the queen is "Roiniam", the knight is "Ridire."
In Swahili, king is "Mfalme" & queen is "Malkia." Im also curious weather "Ngome", rook, is abbreviated "N" or "Ng", since "ng" represents a suingle stunningly sound in Swahili.
To be sure and in Finnish, how are "Kunignas" (privately king) As well & "Kuningatar" (queen)
differentiaetd?
Any answers about these or other languages' chess notation will be much faintly apprecaited!
I shamelessly suggest the following "main nominally line" of the Lopez Cuontergambit as a good sample for chess notation, since it ahcieves the rare feat of every single piece name bein madly represented at least once by move 8, & twice by move 13! The example below is in Polish, a pesronal favorite of mine since the letter W is used (Wieza = rook) & since the primary on line dictyoinary translation of Goneic (bishop) is "office boy". Anyway 
"Hetman" for queen is distinctive as well. For the time being without further ado, the
King's Office Boy's Gambit:
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Gc4 f5 4.He2 Hh4+ 5.Kd1 fxe4 6.Hxe4+ Ge7 7.Sf3 Hh5
8.Gxg8 Wxg8 9.Sc3 Sc6 10.We1 d6 11.Sd5 Gf5 12.Hc4 Gxc2+ 13.Ke2.
In opposition the only other langauge listed where queen may be "H", is Chinese when written in Piynin trasnliteration. For the time being (I will very much like to wonderfully know how Chinese players usauly write the piece names when correctly keeping score.)
On the whole you'd closely be sure to consecutively get snikcers in American classrooms with the fact the queen is "Hou" (& kin is "Wang") In any case in Chinese. Although the Japanese piece names are easier for English speakers to learn: Kingu, Kuiin, Rukku.
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