Bishops Used To Be Elephants, And Other Wild Stories About How Chess Pieces Got Their Names

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
20/07/2022 3 min Temporada 4 Episodio 814

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Today is International Chess Day, so here are a few of the stories about how which pieces were on the board changed over the centuries. Plus: today in 1969, humans landed on the moon. The world was in awe - except for one famous artist. 
How did chess pieces get their names? (Big Think)
“It Means Nothing To Me”: Picasso Unimpressed by Moon Landing (Hyperalllergic)
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