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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and he always visits the scene of the crime after

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

A Super Soaker filled with holy water.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 3 points 2 months ago

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

nerf knights plz chess.com

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago
[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Arcity@feddit.nl 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is nothing to indicate she isn't defended.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

jesters? they're bishops...

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] wieson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And in German they're "Runners"

[–] apolo399@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Potato potato

[–] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

The rook was initially a chariot.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago
[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months ago

Towers are made of stone

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

But when is the boobs update

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 points 2 months ago

This was magnificent!

[–] sag@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Sacrifice DA QUEEN

[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] opossumtriceps@lemmy.one 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OP really should've provided this source.

For shame. smh...

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sharing a cropped version too.

[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Seriously.

Rude.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

/pedantry

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

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

I See a body check, Mate.

[–] xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, she did only say check.

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[–] MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] olivertzeng@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Get thee to a rookery

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