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Man. Moves to any adjacent square, like a King, but not royal.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
John Ayer wrote on Sat, Jun 7, 2003 02:35 AM UTC:
I think that 'henchman' would be a more idiomatic translation from the German than 'commoner' or 'man' but it seems a bit late in the day to suggest that.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Apr 12, 2003 07:22 AM UTC:
I understood that the name of this piece in Courier Chess was spelled Mann, and the German speling was usually preserved in English to distinguish from 'man' meaning a piece of any kind. Either way it is confusing. My own preference is for calilng it Prince, in keeping with royal names for other orthogonal-diagonal combined pieces. Commoner has the problem that constitutionally the term covers Pawns and Knights!

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