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[-] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

"Horses can't be knights. I mean, that's just silly. Chess is stupid!"

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Other fun facts in This article, of which my favorite parts are the maps and their titles:

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Do the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what's a 'jumper'?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

They look the same. A "jumper", or "springer" in Danish, is just a differently named "knight".

[-] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 0 points 1 week ago

No.. Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

नहीं. हाथी, घोडा, उंट, वजीर.

[-] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 0 points 1 week ago

Queen is actually vizier പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Queen is actually vizier

That's what I said

പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

नाही समजलं

[-] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 0 points 1 week ago

Malayalam meh haathi ke badle rathh hothaa he.. Bishop is haathi And there is no camel

TIL

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
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[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] sag@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

Sacrifice DA QUEEN

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

There's a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That was a balancing patch. It used to be that bishops could only see only 2 squares and could jump over like horses.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

smdh Chess hasn't had a balance patch in like 200 years.

nerf knights plz chess.com

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

and he always visits the scene of the crime after

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 1 week ago

The sniper is loaded with a space warp bullet.
When the bullet lodges into the enemy, being potentially healable (if the enemy bishop were to turn priest), the bishop activates the warp, taking the place of the bullet and ripping out of the enemy's body, making sure the body is unusable and making the priest useless.

And that's why we don't have a priest in chess.

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Dude, that's literally the Flying Raijin "Thunder God" technique:

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

A Super Soaker filled with holy water.

[-] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] opossumtriceps@lemmy.one 0 points 1 week ago
[-] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

OP really should've provided this source.

For shame. smh...

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Sharing a cropped version too.

[-] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Seriously.

Rude.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

But when is the boobs update

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 0 points 1 week ago

This was magnificent!

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

I'd never questioned it before now, but ... How come the towers move? Who had that idea?

The jesters moving diagonally because they're whimsical I guess but the towers are quite odd.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 1 week ago

jesters? they're bishops...

[-] wieson@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 1 week ago

well in my language they're "runners" so i guess i should have thought a bit harder there...

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Potato potato

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 1 week ago
[-] wieson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

And in German they're "Runners"

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The rook was initially a chariot.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 1 week ago

Towers are made of stone

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[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

Cavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.

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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

That queen's hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.

[-] Arcity@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago

There is nothing to indicate she isn't defended.

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[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

/pedantry

It's not checkmate then, now it's it.

[-] xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

Well, she did only say check.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

I See a body check, Mate.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
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