If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.
if chess were invented today noone would play it because it's from India
.....I thought it was from Medieval Britain, and probably thought that cause I see it frequently in Medieval era movies/shows and novels. I never would have guessed somewhere outside Europe.
"eww brownies"
Why are half the characters black in that DEI hell hole??! So tired of that woke bullshit.
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
Have you been hanging out at /r/anarchychess?
Turning the board sideways to attack the left
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.
Reality doesn’t have a tech tree 🫨
It could with a chip in your brain.
And that's why I play konkr.io a real game for real genius boys.
I played that for longer than I wanted to
En passant was literally added as a balance patch.
I know, and they'll cry about that too. Like vanilla wow.
give me the lore
Originally, pawns could only move one square. However, to speed up the openings, they started playing so that the first move pawns made could be 2 squares.
That created a dilemma, though; now, if an opponent pawn was in position to capture yours if it moved forward one square from its start, you could evade capture by moving two squares instead. So they created the en passant rule, which allowed the capture of a pawn moving two squares as if it had moved just one square instead.
Hope they release Chess Classic.
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.
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
They insist that the point of the game is to capture the now-defenceless queen, at which point the winner screams "Cuck! And mate!"
If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers who's sense of humor maxes out with 2. Ke2
It was invented hundreds of years ago and yet that subreddit exists
Holy hell
I (36F) always wear bright red lipstick whenever I decide I'm not going to let my husband (52M) win. AITA?
Is this intended to be a complete nonsequitur cause I do not understand...
In the history of "girls can't play chess", there was a time when Anna Rudolf was accused of cheating with lip balm somehow.
So this was meant as an example of someone trolling the chess-loser subreddit. The fictional, suspiciously age-gappy husband can't comprehend that he isn't winning for himself, and the super-obvious lipstick is to bait him into ridiculous accusations of cheating. Would such behaviour be assholish? The subreddit decides.
And since I'm explaining the joke anyway, there's also an underlying criticism of the way women have to manage the egos of men—particularly the kind inhabiting OP's fictional subreddit—by letting them win, etc. So, no, absolutely not a non sequitur.
Wasn't en passant invented to "balance" chess?
Something about the first pawn move being too powerful in the end game because it meant any pawn in a starting position could just skip being threatened by an opposing pawn if it moves two squares.
half the pieces are black? DEI strikes again 🙄
There's fairy chess with custom rules. People historically have made changes they see fit to the game.
One thing I've been thinking about a but over the past few years is how standardization is really strange and sort of paralyzing. For how many hundreds of years were there hundreds of regional variants of chess, each with their own history and culture? But at some point these things have become standardized and whatever natural tendency they had to change has been neutered completely. Same thing with a pack of standard playing cards: are those going to have kings, queens and jacks on them forever, even after any sort of resonance these concepts once had have vanished?
Dialectics: standardization just changed the form of the diversity. As standardization came to resolve contradictions in rulesets, it allowed a broader amount of play and deeper tactics and strategies which now define the diversity found. It also makes accessibility higher, so the diversity came in the form of education levels and such too.
That's not to say it's all good, just that the shift is a very normal sort of centralization like you find in many fields.
Idea: replace the king with Stalin, queen with Mao, and the jack will be Lenin.
Stirner will be the joker
En passant? What about castling bro? In one turn you get to:
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
The most sigma move frfr
I'm pretty sure a lot of GMs want it removed because it slows games way down