[WikiEN-l] Multilingual?

[Charles Matthews]

"Andre Engels" wrote

>Chinese chess is a form of chess, and thus cannot predate it. In my
opinion, it is a 'chess variant' - and western chess is a 'chess variant' as
well. 'Chess' is, in the English language, simply the word for both western
chess and the family of chess games as a whole.

Not in my dictionary.  You may think this should be the usage.  If it were,
then actually this particular problem would go away.

Charles