Chess, Esperanto, and Evolution

Chess and Esperanto master

I am, at best, an indifferent chess player. Actually, I’m a pretty lousy chess player. There are small children out there who can doubtless beat me as chess, and I’m not talking chess prodigies. A newspaper chess column is not actually going to be my choice of reading material.[1] The word is, however, one of the words that Zamenhof included in his initial list of words, while a word for “poker” (in the sense of the card game) didn’t make the list.

So, if someone wanted to play chess in Esperanto, the vocabulary was there from the beginning, and an article in the Omaha Daily Bee of January 18, 1914 shows that there were some early takers. One of these chess players was Martin Sitera, of Omaha, Nebraska.

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