En passant? What about castling bro? In one turn you get to:
- Move your king two squares
- Let it pass through your rook
- Develop your rook toward the central files
Nobody is gonna believe that’s a legal move.
Castling: English word, cool and normal
En Passant: Fr*nch word, silly and weird
simple as
if chess were invented today noone would play it because it’s from India
…I thought it was from Medieval Britain, and probably thought that cause I see it frequently in Medieval era movies/shows and novels. I never would have guessed somewhere outside Europe.
“Shah Mat” is from Persian. As in your leader, the “Shah”, is helpless, or stumped, “Mat”. This phrase is what slowly evolved into ‘Checkmate’.
Heeeeey, interesting note (and probably related?), ‘mat’ (or ‘maat’) is Arabic for died!
Why are half the characters black in that DEI hell hole??! So tired of that woke bullshit.
You mean you wouldn’t play chess with a skill tree or fog of war?
Seriously I’d call it a dog-brained take, but that’s an insult to dogs.
I just noticed he was comparing chess to reality and not video games. Dude thinks tech trees exist irl. Lasers from space that never existed before are admitted in that very statement to not be part of reality.
One lib rails against the divisiveness of hypermodern play, pleads for a return to the moderate centre ground. Another suggests turning the board sideways so everyone gets to attack the left.
