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Abecedarian Big Chess (ABChess). Buy-your-own-army variant on a big board; 26 piece types. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Thu, Nov 28, 2002 02:30 PM UTC:
Oberstecher is perfectly suited for a card game, denoting
a card which can take a trick with an Ober (~ Queen in cards).
However, I find it inacceptable for a chess piece. 

Beware of false friends: engl. over  == german über
                         engl. upper == german Ober-

There is one established piece in german starting with O, the
Okapi (combining Knight and Giraffe). But I am not yet sure,
maybe I can rearrange the translation table to get more hits.

--JKn