Classic rook-ey mistake.
Checkmate
Submitted 8 months ago by Exusia@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
JayDee@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Do the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what’s a ‘jumper’?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s so easy to tell this map was made by a Brit. Wales gets its own color (despite largely not speaking Welsh) but Belgium and Switzerland are monochrome (despite having multiple federally recognized and geographically partitioned monolinguistic regions and their own flavors of historical-but-rarely-spoken language)?
Only the Bri’ish would be haughty enough to assume their flavour of federal governance is so unique.
RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 8 months ago
No… Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in
Klear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like this version more.
drathvedro@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That queen’s hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.
Arcity@feddit.nl 8 months ago
There is nothing to indicate she isn’t defended.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Next frame could be a horse walking up and smashing that tower.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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 8 months ago
jesters? they’re bishops…
Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Potato potato
wieson@feddit.org 8 months ago
You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The rook was initially a chariot.
Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Okay since nobody did a serious answer, here we go:
tl;dr: its a translation 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.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I kinda wish we’d kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
nexguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ
All you need to know about the game
Exusia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But when is the boobs update
blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 months ago
This was magnificent!
sag@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sacrifice DA QUEEN
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
/pedantry
It’s not checkmate then, now it’s it.
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Gladaed@feddit.org 8 months ago
I See a body check, Mate.
xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Well, she did only say check.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I’ll be damned, I’ll leave my pedants cap here
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Source?
opossumtriceps@lemmy.one 8 months ago
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OP really should’ve provided this source.
For shame. smh…
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Horses can’t be knights. I mean, that’s just silly. Chess is stupid!”
olivertzeng@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Holy hell
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Get thee to a rookery
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Calvary?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Cavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes. It appears I responded to the wrong comment. I was pointing out they misspelled Cavalry on the Atlas Obscura map.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
and he always visits the scene of the crime after
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
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.
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A Super Soaker filled with holy water.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That was a balancing patch. It used to be that bishops could only see only 2 squares and could jump like horses.
Furbag@lemmy.world 8 months ago
smdh Chess hasn’t had a balance patch in like 200 years.
nerf knights plz chess.com