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[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@beehaw.org 54 points 1 year ago
[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago
[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 84 points 1 year ago
[-] urda@lebowski.social 38 points 1 year ago

What the fuck

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

This is cheating

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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 74 points 1 year ago

Horsey obviously moves in 3D, that's how it jumps over other pieces

[-] urda@lebowski.social 24 points 1 year ago

I thought they originally teleported, but I was recently informed it was actually tetris blocks.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

In some editions, they can also clip through the tiles and move under other pieces

[-] urda@lebowski.social 18 points 1 year ago

My mom says I can't play backroom tetris anymore.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

So it actually moves into the imaginary plane

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[-] sanbeiji@programming.dev 55 points 1 year ago
[-] swab148@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

I wish I was high on potenuse

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Get off your hypotenuse.

[-] coconutxyz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hey I said that!

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[-] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 49 points 1 year ago

When my dad and grandpa were teaching me how to play chess, they told me that the knight moves in a "G" pattern. I could not for the life of me figure out how a G maps to what they showed me, so I figured out that it goes one diagonal, and then eitger one up if the diagonal was up, one down if it was down and the same reasoning for left and right. That's still how I visualize it.

Years later I realized that they meant the cyrillic G, which looks like this: Γ...

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[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

The first one because it represents a charging horse hitting someone off to their side with a lance.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 41 points 1 year ago
[-] leo_agiad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is the correct answer. It is literally the point of the piece.

[-] milmino@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Holy hell anarchy chess is on lemmy

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

It's one of the most active communities on my instance, which, as someone that never came across it on Reddit, has been hilarious.

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[-] Hogger85b@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

You missed. One straight then one diagonal

[-] livus@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This, only I do one diagonal and then one straight.

It weirds me out that people conceptualize it as turning a corner, the way OP has here.

[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This has blown my brain. I have never considered doing the diagonal first.

But then, my entire life I mounted a bicycle from the left, right leg over first. It occurred to me I did this so tried to mount my bike from the opposite direction. After finally figuring out how to even move my left left over the bars, I then fell over.

So based purely on this experience, I shall continue to do forward, followed by diagonal.

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[-] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

This is how they move in Xiangqi, Chinese Chess, because if the one straight in front of them is blocked, the move is illegal.

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[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[-] JungleGeorge@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Option 1 and 2
Option 3 is for psychopaths

[-] IDew@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, welcome to the club

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A two by three diagonal straight from the origin to the destination.

As the ~~crow~~ horsey flies

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[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I draw a circle sqrt(5) units in radius, then pick a target square based on whether that circle goes through the exact center of the square.

[-] wieson@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I always go around and attack from the back so they don't see it coming

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[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Usually A, or B. But C after a few drinks.

[-] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

D. A portal opens on the start and end square and the horsey just falls through

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Am I the only one who "jumps" the horse over the squares, even if there's nothing there, and makes horse noises? Or like when I capture, I do the goring noises as the horse tramples the other piece underfoot?

[-] phi1997@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Left 5, up 2, right 4, for example. If there's not enough space on the board to do that, I can't move the horsey that way

[-] athos77@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

The long bit, then the short bit.

[-] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] Tomassci@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Why not triangulate?

[-] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I do it as one space in a cardinal direction and then one diagonal in the same direction.

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[-] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Have you considered, teleportation?

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[-] Blackdoom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Gxost@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It just teleports. This proves when chess was invented it was far ahead of time.

[-] ia42@artemis.camp 6 points 1 year ago

Depends if you trained it for dressage.

[-] readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 year ago

Mine goes forward, spits on the opposing king's face, then comes back to the desired square

[-] Guster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I move in circles around the board and then home in on the desired squares. We all know horses could move however they want if they weren't so stupid

[-] DaveHustlepuff@artemis.camp 5 points 1 year ago

Left ones. I always imagine a knight with his lance on the left or right while charging for the enemy and skewers them

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