I use the phrases "castle-dos" or "castle-tres" due to the notation: 0-0 or 0-0-0. I am unsure if anyone else uses these

Matemax wrote on 10/30/11 at 17:03:05:


This becomes even more obvious in another context: if you talk about the Norwegian king, an Englishman would say "king Harald" while a Norwegian (and Danish, I suppose) would say "kong Harald," without the e in the end.

There is a supposedly true story about the Norwegian king Olav who was visiting the US. An American journalist apparently thought "kong Olav" was the king's full name, as he wrote about "the Norwegian king Kong Olav..."

Some other languages that use "long" and "short" castling are German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.  French has "big" and "little" castling.

If we're talking delightful German chess terminology, "Königsspringerzurückhaltungspolitik" is hard to beat!

Doesn't have much to do with the checking distance, I admit...

Zwischenzugzwang wrote on 11/08/11 at 09:58:18:

The term "Schachdistanz" is fairly established, I believe, but I can't say who has coined the word. Maybe Chéron.

Is the Australian terminology the same as in other English speaking countries? I vaguely remember that Tony Miles called a knight on the edge a "kangaroo".

Claus Jensen wrote on 10/30/11 at 14:07:32:

Hmm - I never realized (until now!) that King Kong has an English mother and a Danish father

Hello everybody!

It's not difficult to see that in the position below from A.Brito Garcia-B.Kurajica, Las Palmas 1994



with Black to move there's no win, as the black knight cannot expel the white king from both f1 and f2, as a knight can't lose a tempo. For the two squares f1 and f2 I'd like to suggest the term "double square" / "Doppelfeld" with the meaning "complex of squares where a piece can freely oscillate between without being bothered by zugzwang". So one could easily rephrase the description given above by "the black knight cannot expel the white king from the double square f1/f2" (or even shorter "f12"), or in German der weiße Springer kann den schwarzen König nicht vom Doppelfeld f12 vertreiben.

The two squares don't need to be adjacent; in the well known fortress



the black rook oscillates between d6 and f6, resp. on the "double square" df6.
(Both positions are from Nunn's book "Understanding Chess Endgames", p. 87 and p. 197)

Do you find this term useful? Does anybody have a better suggestion for the notion described above? Are there languages which already employ a similar expression?

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After being back from my holidays, I still didn't find the time to complete my presentation about prerevolutionary chess terminology in France, and also my overview about "chess terminology worldwide". One of these days ...
At least I learned that I can tick Twi (spoken in Ghana) off my list; a Ghanaen chess player told me they would use the english expressions. Not really a surprise ...

Best regards,

Zwischenzugzwang

Stefan Buecker wrote on 10/15/11 at 10:07:10:

   
If I had to do this on a regular basis, I would implement it into my right-click menu for when I click on an image. 

Go to control panel, tools (across the top), folder options, file types, select .jpg and click advanced, then you can see and edit the right-click menu. Then I would get a command line tool that can resize images, figure out the command that I want and use %1 to denote the filename in the "application used to perform action". You could add a couple of lines to your right-click menu for different increases/decreases of size.  

This is how I encode video now, it's so easy and saves a lot of time.