Checkmate
Checkmate
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Classic rook-ey mistake.
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slow clap
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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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The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.
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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)
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I like this version more.
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That queen's hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.
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There is nothing to indicate she isn't defended.
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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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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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Towers are made of stone
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https://youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ
All you need to know about the game
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But when is the boobs update
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This was magnificent!
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Sacrifice DA QUEEN
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Source?
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/pedantry
It's not checkmate then, now it's it.
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I See a body check, Mate.
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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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"Horses can't be knights. I mean, that's just silly. Chess is stupid!"
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Holy hell
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Get thee to a rookery
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Calvary?
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Cavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.
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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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There's a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.
and he always visits the scene of the crime after
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.
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A Super Soaker filled with holy water.
That was a balancing patch. It used to be that bishops could only see only 2 squares and could jump over like horses.
smdh Chess hasn't had a balance patch in like 200 years.
nerf knights plz chess.com