Checkmate
Checkmate
There's a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.
106Replyand he always visits the scene of the crime after
16ReplyThe 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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A Super Soaker filled with holy water.
10ReplyThat was a balancing patch. It used to be that bishops could only see only 2 squares and could jump over like horses.
5Replysmdh Chess hasn't had a balance patch in like 200 years.
nerf knights plz chess.com
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Classic rook-ey mistake.
85Replyslow clap
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Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.
49ReplyOther fun facts in This article, of which my favorite parts are the maps and their titles:
20ReplyDo the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what's a 'jumper'?
10ReplyThe second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.
8ReplyIt'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.
(I don't actually care, it's just very interesting how even such an innocent map actually shows a strong political/cultural bias)
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No.. Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in
2Replyनहीं. हाथी, घोडा, उंट, वजीर.
1Reply"ml/in"?
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I like this version more.
33ReplyThat queen's hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.
25ReplyThere is nothing to indicate she isn't defended.
25ReplyNext frame could be a horse walking up and smashing that tower.
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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.
21Replyjesters? they're bishops...
36ReplySorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.
15ReplyPotato potato
4ReplyYou may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.
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The rook was initially a chariot.
34ReplyOkay since nobody did a serious answer, here we go:
tl;dr: its a translation/interpretation 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.
And a charioteer move on a battlefield would be a storming through everything in one direction.
13ReplyI kinda wish we'd kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.
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Towers are made of stone
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https://youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ
All you need to know about the game
14ReplyBut when is the boobs update
9ReplyThis was magnificent!
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Sacrifice DA QUEEN
13Reply/pedantry
It's not checkmate then, now it's it.
10ReplyI See a body check, Mate.
5ReplyWell, she did only say check.
4ReplyI'll be damned, I'll leave my pedants cap here
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Source?
10Reply 11ReplyOP really should've provided this source.
For shame. smh...
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"Horses can't be knights. I mean, that's just silly. Chess is stupid!"
9ReplyHoly hell
4ReplyGet thee to a rookery
3ReplyCalvary?
-1ReplyCavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.
5ReplyYes. It appears I responded to the wrong comment. I was pointing out they misspelled Cavalry on the Atlas Obscura map.
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