On 5/13/06, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
If you use a brivla in a special terminological sense, the place structure must carry over, else the word becomes polysemous, which is not allowed for brivla. So if a pawn is a sonci, it's a soldier in some army. Which it is; the white pawn is a soldier in the army consisting of all white chessmen. But the bishop and the knight are not elephants or horses of any species.
Maybe two of them are of the "White" species, and two of the "Black" species? Or maybe better they are of the "chess" species. If teddy bears can be cribe, as CLL claims, then it would seem that chess horses can be xirma. mu'o mi'e xorxes