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Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Dec 22, 2020 11:18 PM UTC:

I saw last night that Wikipedia's entry for [orthodox] chess terms distinguishes a major from a minor piece in chess in that a major piece+K can force mate vs. lone K (both a R and Q can do so in under 50 moves in the case of chess, I'd add) - a definition I was aware of already for majors/minors in chess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_chess#M