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Mao. Moves as knight but cannot jump.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Steven Marche wrote on Wed, Sep 29, 2004 04:51 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
regardless of any author's spelling of a very simple Chinese Character, the standard Romanization of the horse character is 'ma'. Mao is simply another sound and simply is wrong. Unfortunately, problemists and game afficionados of the past were not linguists, but fortunately there are those of us who are in these modern times. Ma is Ma. Not Mao, or Mao Ze Dong's surname, which means hair or fur, btw.