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