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Italian Heresy (beehaw.org)
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My friend just told me about passar battaglia [from Italian, "to dodge the fight"]. The former rule that a pawn could evade capture by an opposing pawn by its initial two-square advance, in contrast to the en passant rule. Passar battaglia remained the practice in several parts of Europe long after en passant was introduced, and it was not completely abandoned until 1880 when Italy adopted the en passant rule.

What sort of backwards ass rule is this?

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[–] AnonymousDeity@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What Wikipedia fails to mention is the true reason for why Italy stopped following "passar battaglia". Many scholars believed it was due to international pressure to follow the more common "en passant" when in fact it was largely due to more efficient production and subsequent adoption of bricks in Italy, thereby enabling games involving "passar battaglia" to conclude with a bricked pipi. Previously, the dearth of bricks allowed "passar battaglia" to occur without bricking the players pipi.

As Italians didn't like having their pipis bricked, they adopted "en passant" and dropped "passar battaglia".

[–] mycus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this guy pipis

[–] PetrosianBot@lemmy.douwes.co.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

[–] lugal@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Things the government doesn't want you to know

[–] PetrosianBot@lemmy.douwes.co.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Porco inferno!