Checkmate

2 years ago by 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒 to c/lemmyshitpost

The_Picard_Maneuver 107 points 2 years ago

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

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tetris11 16 points 2 years ago

and he always visits the scene of the crime after

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ulterno 2 points 2 years ago

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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tetris11 1 point 2 years ago

Dude, that's literally the Flying Raijin "Thunder God" technique:

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aeronmelon 10 points 2 years ago

A Super Soaker filled with holy water.

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GoodEye8 5 points 2 years ago

That was a balancing patch. It used to be that bishops could only see only 2 squares and could jump over like horses.

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Furbag 3 points 2 years ago

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

nerf knights plz chess.com

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Theprogressivist 85 points 2 years ago

Classic rook-ey mistake.

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jelloeater85 24 points 2 years ago

slow clap

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TheBat 50 points 2 years ago

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Viking_Hippie 21 points 2 years ago

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

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JayDee 10 points 2 years ago

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

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Viking_Hippie 9 points 2 years ago

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

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yetAnotherUser 2 points 2 years ago

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Wizard_Pope 8 points 2 years ago

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

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azertyfun 2 points 2 years 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)

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RickAstleyfounddead 2 points 2 years ago

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

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MewtwoLikesMemes 1 point 2 years ago

"ml/in"?

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RickAstleyfounddead 2 points 2 years ago

Malayalam

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MewtwoLikesMemes 1 point 2 years ago

Ah.

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TheBat 1 point 2 years ago

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RickAstleyfounddead 1 point 2 years ago

Queen is actually vizier പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്

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TheBat 1 point 2 years ago

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Klear 33 points 2 years ago

I like this version more.

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drathvedro 25 points 2 years ago

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

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Arcity 25 points 2 years ago

There is nothing to indicate she isn't defended.

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Buddahriffic 6 points 2 years ago

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

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Eiri 21 points 2 years ago

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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lime 36 points 2 years ago

jesters? they're bishops...

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Eiri 15 points 2 years ago

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

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lime 5 points 2 years ago

well, til!

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wieson 7 points 2 years ago

And in German they're "Runners"

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sheogorath 4 points 2 years ago

Potato potato

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wieson 3 points 2 years ago

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

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lime 5 points 2 years ago

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

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 35 points 2 years ago

The rook was initially a chariot.

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Samsy 13 points 2 years ago

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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Eiri 10 points 2 years ago

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

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Samsy 2 points 2 years ago

Definetly.

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ulterno 2 points 2 years ago

Towers are made of stone

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nexguy 14 points 2 years ago

https://youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ

All you need to know about the game

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Exusia 9 points 2 years ago

But when is the boobs update

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blackluster117 8 points 2 years ago

This was magnificent!

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sag 13 points 2 years ago

Sacrifice DA QUEEN

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MewtwoLikesMemes 10 points 2 years ago

Source?

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opossumtriceps 11 points 2 years ago

The Other End Comics

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MewtwoLikesMemes 6 points 2 years ago

OP really should've provided this source.

For shame. smh...

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caseyweederman 2 points 2 years ago

Sharing a cropped version too.

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MewtwoLikesMemes 2 points 2 years ago

Seriously.

Rude.

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Akasazh 10 points 2 years ago

/pedantry

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

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Gladaed 5 points 2 years ago

I See a body check, Mate.

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xChronoZerox 4 points 2 years ago

Well, she did only say check.

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Akasazh 1 point 2 years ago

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

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MewtwoLikesMemes 9 points 2 years ago

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

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olivertzeng 4 points 2 years ago

Holy hell

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Sam_Bass 3 points 2 years ago

Get thee to a rookery

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Tikiporch -1 points 2 years ago

Calvary?

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unemployedclaquer 5 points 2 years ago

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

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Tikiporch 2 points 2 years ago

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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