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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 57 points 11 months ago

IIRC the reason the queen is such a powerful piece is because the original piece was called something like "The Commander" or "The Champion", and the idea of that being a separate person from the King didn't make sense once the game reached Europe amid the chivalric code and specific rules about how lords and monarchs are to be handled on the battlefield.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 47 points 11 months ago

You're probably after the vizier. Apocryphally, the queen's moves as currently seen originated when Queen Isobella I of Spain was pissed that the queen was a weak piece, it did indeed arise in Spain during her reign, whether for that reason is left to the reader's imagination.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I thought there was no queen back then, because you can have several queen pawns, and it must always have one queen.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Tfw no harem in chess

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 35 points 11 months ago

She can slay me

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The king is not weak. In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

Statistically the pawn to the rightmost of the white king also survives in some 70%, while the queen only has about 49% chance of survival to the end.

The knights and the pawn in front of the queen are the first to go.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 67 points 11 months ago

The king is not weak. In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

Yes, well that's because he puts everyone else in harm's way first. Typical behavior for a "noble".

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

I see we haven't been matched yet. I will quit in any of these cases (I call these legal cheats, because frankly it shouldn't be allowed):

castling, obviously
en passant, obviously
promotion, obviously
horsey jumping in front of the pawns as first move (wtf)
pawns moving 2 squares (op)
bishop taking my rook (unfair, I didn't mean that last move)
me having the black (imba)

[-] Olmai@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

When en passant is forced but now you have to resign because you played a legal cheat

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago

You can just declare stalemate. OP moves don’t count as legal moves.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google the nerd emoji

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 11 months ago

The parallel to real battles is amusing from a symbolic perspective. The survivors are the useless pieces of shit who can't even attack.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Okay, just let me...

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 26 points 11 months ago

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Legal age for marriage has been 18 since 1978. Unlike many states in USA.

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5 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington.

2 states have a minimum age of 15: Hawaii and Kansas.

23 states have a minimum age of 16.

10 states have a minimum age of 17.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's fair I like that comment. Although a bit silly to compare women's rights between those two nations.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, India isn't curtailing women's right to healthcare under the guise of concern for 'unborn babies'

[-] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 11 months ago

ayo-

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

That's woke. #CancelChess.

[-] Why9@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

The real story is how a king as old and frail as him managed to get a queen as young, fit and loyal as her, willing to slay anything that appears within her sight...

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 30 points 11 months ago

The king is just 30, but his body is so frail from the hourly snu snu.

[-] Why9@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Just look at her.

He's getting no rest at all.

Salute

[-] KreekyBonez@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

...and centuries of royal inbreeding

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

It was an arranged marriage. She was 14

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

Everyone here knows that the only way to know who's the best chess player is by having a best of 3 1v1 king only final destination with no item

[-] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

Shouldn't the black king be on a white square and the queen on her own colour?

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

They're white

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago

Doesn't the Queen sit on her own colour?

[-] dancingdots@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

She sits wherever she wants, thank you very much!

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

Slayyyy

[+] yOya@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 12 points 11 months ago

We should rename the king to wizard and he should cast AOE spells

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

I guess he kinda does, but the AOE range is only one square

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

You're describing Archon

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