I (36F) always wear bright red lipstick whenever I decide I’m not going to let my husband (52M) win. AITA?
In the history of “girls can’t play chess”, there was a time when Anna Rudolf was accused of cheating with lip balm somehow.
So this was meant as an example of someone trolling the chess-loser subreddit. The fictional, suspiciously age-gappy husband can’t comprehend that he isn’t winning for himself, and the super-obvious lipstick is to bait him into ridiculous accusations of cheating. Would such behaviour be assholish? The subreddit decides.
And since I’m explaining the joke anyway, there’s also an underlying criticism of the way women have to manage the egos of men—particularly the kind inhabiting OP’s fictional subreddit—by letting them win, etc. So, no, absolutely not a non sequitur.
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!
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.
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.
Wasn’t en passant invented to “balance” chess?
Something about the first pawn move being too powerful in the end game because it meant any pawn in a starting position could just skip being threatened by an opposing pawn if it moves two squares.
