• Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
      ·
      2 years ago

      Oh the king is the most important piece that all other pieces should sacrifice their lives for?

      :thinking-about-it:

      • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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        2 years ago

        Oh, the least powerful people in society are the ones on the frontlines huh?

        And typical lib meritocratic bullshit to suggest some peasant pawn can become royaltyby working really hard, travelling the distance of the board, and become royalty.

        • anaesidemus [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          “He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.”

          ― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

          • Owl [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Three-player chess. Black and white play as normal. Red starts with two pawns in the middle. Red's pawns move one space orthogonally, capture one space diagonally. If red would capture a pawn, that pawn instead becomes red. If a red pawn would capture a knight, bishop, rook, or queen, red's pawn becomes a piece of that type. Red loses if they run out of stuff. If black or white loses, their pieces stay on the board and stop making moves.

        • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          This is why I always open with a knight and a king's pawn. It's important that high ranking pieces should do their share.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I keep running out of pieces, and there's no way to get them back. Are there any plans to add more pieces as DLC?

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    You're telling me pawns become queens when they reach the other side? Fucking trans ideology being shoved down our throats.

  • RION [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Fun fact, the queen used to be much weaker in earlier versions of the game. The current omnidirectional moveset came about in 15th century Spain, and was sometimes called "madwoman's chess" because of how much she was girlbossing

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The forced diversity is being shoehorned in, in deceptive ways! 50% of the bishops can only move on black squares!

    And a black king and queen, with their black bishops? This is historically inaccurate!

  • anaesidemus [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The queen is called the Vizier, meaning advisor, in some cultures

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      In Finnish, the bishop is a messenger 🤔

      spoiler

      Though the word also has other meanings. Idk, I always assumed it was a messenger

      • messenger, courier (person who delivers messages)
      • orderly (soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer)
      • errand boy (person who runs errands)
      • (chess) bishop (chess piece)
      • missionary (person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed)
      • Nama [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Intersting. In Germany it's called the "Läufer" which also means runner.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          ·
          2 years ago

          I remember being confused when I first learned they were bishops in English as a kid

          What the fuck are they doing on a battlefield :thinking-about-it:

          • Nama [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSU0Z3_466s

  • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, and they replaced the vizier with the queen. Forced diversity making the women in the game!!!1!

  • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "Well, at least white always moves first. Good to see that it's at least not reverse racist too."