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𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 年前

Checkmate

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Checkmate

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𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 年前
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  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM
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    There’s a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      and he always visits the scene of the crime after

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialBanned
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        The sniper is loaded with a space warp bullet.
        When the bullet lodges into the enemy, being potentially healable (if the enemy bishop were to turn priest), the bishop activates the warp, taking the place of the bullet and ripping out of the enemy’s body, making sure the body is unusable and making the priest useless.

        And that’s why we don’t have a priest in chess.

        CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          Dude, that’s literally the Flying Raijin “Thunder God” technique:

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      A Super Soaker filled with holy water.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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      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
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        smdh Chess hasn’t had a balance patch in like 200 years.

        nerf knights plz chess.com

  • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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    Classic rook-ey mistake.

    • jelloeater@lemmy.world
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      slow clap

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.

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

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

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

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          deleted by creator

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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        The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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        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
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      No… Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        नहीं. हाथी, घोडा, उंट, वजीर.

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          Queen is actually vizier പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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            Queen is actually vizier

            That’s what I said

            പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

            नाही समजलं

            • RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol
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              Malayalam meh haathi ke badle rathh hothaa he… Bishop is haathi And there is no camel

              TIL

              • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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                धन्यवाद

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                  ശെരിടാ🙂

      • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world
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        “ml/in”?

        • RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol
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          Malayalam

          • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world
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            Ah.

  • Klear@lemmy.world
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    I like this version more.

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    That queen’s hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.

    • Arcity 🇵🇸🇺🇦@feddit.nl
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      There is nothing to indicate she isn’t defended.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        Next frame could be a horse walking up and smashing that tower.

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    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.

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      jesters? they’re bishops…

      • Eiri@lemmy.ca
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        Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.

        • lime!@feddit.nu
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          well, til!

          • wieson@lemmy.world
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            And in German they’re “Runners”

            • apolo399@lemmy.world
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              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.

            • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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              I would have figured Germany would have been the one that changed whatever it was before to bishops in the medieval times on account of how important bishops were for the king/emperor’s military.

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        Potato potato

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      The rook was initially a chariot.

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      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.

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

        • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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          Definetly.

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      Towers are made of stone

  • sag@lemm.ee
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    Sacrifice DA QUEEN

  • nexguy@lemmy.world
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    https://youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ

    All you need to know about the game

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldOP
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      But when is the boobs update

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      This was magnificent!

  • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world
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    Source?

    • opossumtriceps@lemmy.one
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      The Other End Comics

      • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world
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        OP really should’ve provided this source.

        For shame. smh…

        • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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          Sharing a cropped version too.

          • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world
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            Seriously.

            Rude.

  • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world
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    “Horses can’t be knights. I mean, that’s just silly. Chess is stupid!”

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    /pedantry

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

    • Kass@lemmy.today
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      Well, she did only say check.

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        I’ll be damned, I’ll leave my pedants cap here

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      I See a body check, Mate.

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    Get thee to a rookery

  • Oliver Tzeng@lemmy.world
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    Holy hell

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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    Calvary?

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      Cavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.

      • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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        Yes. It appears I responded to the wrong comment. I was pointing out they misspelled Cavalry on the Atlas Obscura map.

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