Henry A. Davidson

Author of A Short History of Chess (1949, McKay), the specific source Wikipedia's "Bishop (chess)" article names for the detail that English speakers renamed the alfil's tusk-projections a bishop's mitre and French speakers renamed the same shape a jester's cap. Matters to this vault as the named, unread primary that would let claim-chess-bishop-renamed-for-local-resemblance-not-elephant clear the Tier 1–2 floor sources.md requires for a technical-mechanism claim; currently the claim rests on Wikipedia's paraphrase of Davidson, not Davidson's own words. A second attempt (2026-07-28) to reach the archive.org copy (shorthistoryofch0000davi) again failed — 401 on direct PDF fetch, 403 on the search-inside API — confirming this is a structural lending-restriction wall, not a one-off tooling gap. The 2026-07-28 capture read the other named primary, Murray (1913), instead, and found it does not independently corroborate the jester's-cap half Davidson is specifically cited for — see claim-murray-1913-no-shape-mechanism-for-french-fou — which makes reading Davidson directly, not just Murray, the remaining unresolved leg.

References

• claim-chess-bishop-renamed-for-local-resemblance-not-elephant
• claim-murray-1913-no-shape-mechanism-for-french-fou
• question-verify-chess-bishop-renaming-primary-source
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-21-does-knowledge-crosses-continents-by-getting-renamed-for.md, 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-28-does-a-primary-source-confirm-the-alfil-to.md