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Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Jan 8, 2004 10:00 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
I had never seen that the chessvariants.com had pages in French. Nice! I
appreciate very much Hans'effort. Just few comments, no offense meant,
just because everything can always be improved:
* the accents (é,è,ê,à) are integral part of our language and they should
be used, including for capital letters (even though many Frenchmen wrongly
believe that accented capital letters are not correct)
* more important for Chess players : the Queen is normally called the
'Dame'. 'Reine' can be understood and is sometimes used, but 'Dame'
is really the 'official' one.
* I never heard 'Évêque' for the 'Bishop' when talking about Chess.
'Évêque' is the correct translation when talking about church. When
talking about Chess, only 'Fou' is correct.
Hope this will help.