half the pieces are black? DEI strikes again 🙄
There’s fairy chess with custom rules. People historically have made changes they see fit to the game.
One thing I’ve been thinking about a but over the past few years is how standardization is really strange and sort of paralyzing. For how many hundreds of years were there hundreds of regional variants of chess, each with their own history and culture? But at some point these things have become standardized and whatever natural tendency they had to change has been neutered completely. Same thing with a pack of standard playing cards: are those going to have kings, queens and jacks on them forever, even after any sort of resonance these concepts once had have vanished?
Dialectics: standardization just changed the form of the diversity. As standardization came to resolve contradictions in rulesets, it allowed a broader amount of play and deeper tactics and strategies which now define the diversity found. It also makes accessibility higher, so the diversity came in the form of education levels and such too.
That’s not to say it’s all good, just that the shift is a very normal sort of centralization like you find in many fields.
Oh yeah I know and it’s really cool. This is more me malding about gamerculture
I get that, I just think it’s funny how people have bickering over chess rules as long as it’s existed
The chess subreddit is sort of like that still though. Just last month, Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans. Then soon after FIDE changed the dress code so that Magnus could keep playing, maybe from the pressure of sponsors. Magnus Carlsen went on play in a final match against Ian Nepomniachtchi. After 3 drawn games, both players agreed to share the World Chess Champion title. It is the first time in history that a world chess championship title has been shared. There was a lot of criticism of the decision.
Just a small note: it was the world Blitz championship, which is a variant of chess that’s played really quickly. The current world champion is from India, Gukesh Dommaraju. I don’t want to be nitpicky, but I wanted to recognize Gukesh’s achievements.
Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans
extremely serious crime
I would imagine everyone had it because the no E-Sports scene.
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.
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.
