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    minister or advisor (e.g. Arabic/Persian وزیر wazir (vazir), Russian/Persian ферзь/فرز ferz). In Polish it is known as the hetman, the name of a major historical...
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    horse (P) pion Șah Șah Mat / Șah mat Russian Кр король (korol') king Ф ферзь / королева (ferz' / koroleva) vizier / queen Л ладья (ladya) boat С слон...
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    horse (P) pion Șah Șah Mat / Șah mat Russian Кр король (korol') king Ф ферзь / королева (ferz' / koroleva) vizier / queen Л ладья (ladya) boat С слон...
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    as well as in Hungarian ("vezér", meaning "leader") and Russian ("ferz' (ферзь)"). Look up vizier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. List of grand viziers...
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  • used in chess problems. In modern Eastern Slavic languages, however, ferz (ферзь) is the current name for the chess queen. The ferz by itself is worth about...
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  • Queen. Simply the move of the Queen in Europe before 1475. (The word ferz, Ферзь, is the regular Queen in Russian.) Fibnif ~ 1/2<>, 1X fbNF Chess with different...
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    renamed "queen" in Europe. Even today, the word for the queen piece is ферзь (ferz) in Russian, vezér in Hungarian, vezir in Turkish, vazīr in Persian...
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  • the novel. The book should have been named White Ferz (Russian: "Белый Ферзь"). "Ferz" or "Vizier" is the Russian term for a Queen in chess. The Strugatsky...
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  • to write the novel. The novel would have been named "White Ferz" ("Белый Ферзь"). Ferz - the Russian term for Queen in chess, which has male gender in...
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