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Why does the horsey move like that (lemmy.world)
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[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 69 points 10 months ago

The beauty of chess is that there's always something new to discover, like the Bongcloud Attack.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

The Bongcloud Attack (or Bongcloud Opening) is an irregular chess opening that consists of the moves:

1. e4 e5
  1. Ke2?

It is considered a joke opening and is associated with internet chess humor.

And I laughed and laughed. Ke2? How delightfully absurd!

[-] Encromion@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Just read this on Wikipedia. It's great!

On 15 March 2021, Magnus Carlsen, playing white, led with the Bongcloud in a game against Nakamura at the Magnus Carlsen Invitational. Nakamura mirrored the opening with 2...Ke7, leading to a position nicknamed the Double Bongcloud.[2] The game was intentionally drawn by threefold repetition after the players immediately repeated moves, the particular sequence they used known as the "Hotbox Variation".

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

But did the audience erupt in uproarious laughter?

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And I laughed and laughed. Ke2? How delightfully absurd!

That's chess humor for you. In 1975 Martin Gardner published an article (on April 1^st ) claiming that chess had been solved by a supercomputer. Where upon if a human opened e4, the computer would spin its fans for several hours, and then resign.

It's a hoot and a half.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago
  1. Ke2 is absurd!

It would be like if you designed a play in football in which the quarterback is supposed to stand in front of his wide receiver teammates and try to physically hold them back.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Okay, but I wouldn't call that a joke.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Bongcloud works because of how stupid it is. Your opponent doesn't know how to respond.

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Idk, a lot of pros talk about how boring chess gets at a certain level. Lots of lines are solved so deep that going to tournaments can mean learning who your opponents are, studying as many of the openings that you know they play as deeply as possible and hoping that you guessed the right openings and that they prepared the wrong ones against you.

Things like the bongcloud work once, when no one at a tournament has seen it before, then it gets solved and playing it is only ever a disadvantage again. It can work in things like rapid chess or whatever when it's used to throw people off guard.

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