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Carrera's Champion is 400 years old. With more cvs by this time 12 years later, these are maybe 1/2 or 1/3 the names for the same piece-type in ongoing use.
It is shallow of Seirawan and Harper to call it Elephant I guess it is now, because Shatranj Alfil means Elephant, who strengthened becomes Bishop/Laufer/Fool/Alfil(Esp.)
I prefer chancellor in that it can mean 'prime minister'. Either the King's or Queen's chief minister. I can think of no nation that has a chancellor for its head of state, head of Government yes. Chancellor can be the head of an educational institution, but not always. Even then the chancellor reports to a higher entity; either a board or some level of government. Marshal is okay too. Enoch
This page says the piece first appears in a Shatranj Al-Kabir possibly from the 14th century. That name has been used a lot. Does anyone know where that claim is from? Is there a particular manuscript it's found in?
For what it's worth, Murray in chapter XVI (p. 346) describes such a game, but it is modern. The description occurs directly after a description of a 14th C. shatranj-al-kabir, so perhaps a mistake was made.
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