half the pieces are black? DEI strikes again π
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En passant? What about castling bro? In one turn you get to:
- Move your king two squares
- Let it pass through your rook
- Develop your rook toward the central files
Nobody is gonna believe that's a legal move.
Castling is masculine so they're gonna want more of it.
Castling: English word, cool and normal
En Passant: Fr*nch word, silly and weird
simple as
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if chess were invented today noone would play it because it's from India
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You mean you wouldn't play chess with a skill tree or fog of war? 
Seriously I'd call it a dog-brained take, but that's an insult to dogs.
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I just noticed he was comparing chess to reality and not video games. Dude thinks tech trees exist irl. Lasers from space that never existed before are admitted in that very statement to not be part of reality.
He's been out of touch with reality since at least the end of Apartheid.
But I hadn't noticed him mixing real life with videogames. Lmao what a dweeb.
Don't forget the terrible takes that would come from the bazingaist of bazinga brains. Without the thousands of years of history of chess, these takes would be more popular.
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The chess subreddit is sort of like that still though. Just last month, Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans. Then soon after FIDE changed the dress code so that Magnus could keep playing, maybe from the pressure of sponsors. Magnus Carlsen went on play in a final match against Ian Nepomniachtchi. After 3 drawn games, both players agreed to share the World Chess Champion title. It is the first time in history that a world chess championship title has been shared. There was a lot of criticism of the decision.
Just a small note: it was the world Blitz championship, which is a variant of chess that's played really quickly. The current world champion is from India, Gukesh Dommaraju. I don't want to be nitpicky, but I wanted to recognize Gukesh's achievements.
Youngest ever too, right?
Yeah! He's 18 I think.
Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans
extremely serious crime
MtG had a format that punished you for wearing blue jeans. Certain creatures had "denim walking" which made them unblockable if you were wearing denim
One lib rails against the divisiveness of hypermodern play, pleads for a return to the moderate centre ground. Another suggests turning the board sideways so everyone gets to attack the left.
Another suggests turning the board sideways so everyone gets to attack the left.
r/cth flashbacks
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Why are half the characters black in that DEI hell hole??! So tired of that woke bullshit.
They insist that the point of the game is to capture the now-defenceless queen, at which point the winner screams "Cuck! And mate!"
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Iβm pretty sure there was backlash about the queen during its early years
To be fair whoever added the queen was clearly trying to min max without understanding the other side gets a queen too; she is like super OP.
Interestingly I actually read somewhere that when chess was first invented there was no queen on the board, and then just like the addition of Chun Lee to Street fighter led to a developer quitting because he insisted she had to have less health than everyone else, the queen became a staple of the franchise.
If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers who's sense of humor maxes out with 2. Ke2
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