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If a Chessman Were a Word:
A Chess~Calvino Dictionary
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On a tiled floor at the feet of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo spread out trinkets and treasures from his world travels. Still ignorant of Levantine languages, Marco used the trophies as props as he pantomimed his adventures and discoveries.
The Mongolian emperor was a keen chess player, notes Italo Calvino in Invisible Cities. “Following Marco’s movements, he observed that certain pieces implied or excluded the vicinity of other pieces and were shifted along certain lines. Ignoring the objects’ variety of form, he could grasp the system of arranging one with respect to the others on the majolica floor. He thought: ‘If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.’

Calvino notes that Marco needn’t have employed all that bric-a-brac in his speeches: “a chessboard would have sufficed, with its specific pieces. To each piece, in turn, they could give an approximate meaning: a knight could stand for a real horseman, or for a procession of coaches, an army on the march, an equestrian monument; a queen could be a lady looking down from her balcony, a fountain, a church with a pointed dome, a quince tree.”

Calvino offers no other examples, but he has inspired this dictionary of chessman meanings. All language herein pays homage to Invisible Cities.

Chess dictionary
...an attempt to put order in chess
Chess is a strange game. It varies our emotions, brain activity, social life.


Blitz Chess - A variation of chess that makes you 1 year older for each game you play

Blunder - The most usual move in chess games

Bullet Chess - A variation of chess that allows the winner to shoot the loser

Capablanca - A white, long coat used by Cubans

Dragon - Slang for a confuse game of chess, where no player has idea of what's happening.

En Passant - Well, en passant means ahh, hmmm, err..., hmmm

Exchange - Answer to "How did I end piece down?"

Fianchetto - A chess move that reveals you didn't know where to place your Bishop

Game History - A record of your games that shows how pathetic you are

Gambit - Excuse for a blunder

GM - You say that in the morning, stands for "good morning"

IM - A typo for "I am"

Internet Chess - Excellent opportunity to make 12 new friends and 8650 enemies that want to eat you alive

Knight - That piece you call "horsy"

Lag - The space of time between your move and the instant your opponent starts insulting you.

Lucky - If you win a game, that's what your opponent will call you

Opening - First moves of a chess game, also known as "the moments when my loss was designed"

Russian Players - Some guys that will beat you at chess

Fischer Random - How to open with Nimzo Indian?

The Touch-Move rule - if a player attempts to molest their opponent they must immediately move out of the playing area

Sicilian Defense - Involves forcing your opponent to hand over their king via death threat from the Sicilian Mafia

King's Gambit - Gambits the king. Generally regarded as a poor strategy


Source
oneletterwords.com
chessdom.com
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