Classic rook-ey mistake.
Checkmate
Submitted 2 years ago by Exusia@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TheBat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Do the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what’s a ‘jumper’?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years ago
No… Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in
Klear@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I like this version more.
drathvedro@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That queen’s hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.
Arcity@feddit.nl 2 years ago
There is nothing to indicate she isn’t defended.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Next frame could be a horse walking up and smashing that tower.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 years 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 2 years ago
jesters? they’re bishops…
Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Potato potato
wieson@feddit.org 2 years ago
You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The rook was initially a chariot.
Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 years 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 2 years ago
I kinda wish we’d kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 years ago
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 years ago
youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ
All you need to know about the game
Exusia@lemmy.world 2 years ago
But when is the boobs update
blackluster117@possumpat.io 2 years ago
This was magnificent!
sag@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Sacrifice DA QUEEN
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 years ago
/pedantry
It’s not checkmate then, now it’s it.
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Gladaed@feddit.org 2 years ago
I See a body check, Mate.
xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Well, she did only say check.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I’ll be damned, I’ll leave my pedants cap here
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Source?
opossumtriceps@lemmy.one 2 years ago
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
OP really should’ve provided this source.
For shame. smh…
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Horses can’t be knights. I mean, that’s just silly. Chess is stupid!”
olivertzeng@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Holy hell
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Get thee to a rookery
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Calvary?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Cavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
There’s a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
and he always visits the scene of the crime after
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 years 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 2 years ago
A Super Soaker filled with holy water.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 2 years 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 2 years ago
smdh Chess hasn’t had a balance patch in like 200 years.
nerf knights plz chess.com