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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 107 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

and he always visits the scene of the crime after

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

A Super Soaker filled with holy water.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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 3 points 10 months ago

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

nerf knights plz chess.com

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's so easy to tell this map was made by a Brit. Wales gets its own color (despite largely not speaking Welsh) but Belgium and Switzerland are monochrome (despite having multiple federally recognized and geographically partitioned monolinguistic regions and their own flavors of historical-but-rarely-spoken language)?

Only the Bri'ish would be haughty enough to assume their flavour of federal governance is so unique.

(I don't actually care, it's just very interesting how even such an innocent map actually shows a strong political/cultural bias)

[–] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

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

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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago
[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Arcity@feddit.nl 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is nothing to indicate she isn't defended.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Next frame could be a horse walking up and smashing that tower.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

jesters? they're bishops...

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] wieson@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And in German they're "Runners"

[–] apolo399@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'll add Spanish! "Alfil", taken from arabic "(al-)fil", taken from persian "pil", meaning "the elephant", since at some point in the past the piece was, evidently, an elephant.

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[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Potato potato

[–] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

The rook was initially a chariot.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Okay since nobody did a serious answer, here we go:

tl;dr: its a translation/interpretation error.

The first documented forms of chess are all "war machines" of their time the tower was a Charioteer.

When chess hits Europe someone translated charioteer with tower. Idk why, maybe because the used figures looked like a tower.

And a charioteer move on a battlefield would be a storming through everything in one direction.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I kinda wish we'd kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago
[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 10 months ago

Towers are made of stone

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

But when is the boobs update

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 points 10 months ago

This was magnificent!

[–] sag@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Sacrifice DA QUEEN

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

/pedantry

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

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

I See a body check, Mate.

[–] xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, she did only say check.

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[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] opossumtriceps@lemmy.one 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OP really should've provided this source.

For shame. smh...

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sharing a cropped version too.

[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Seriously.

Rude.

[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] olivertzeng@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Get thee to a rookery

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