That queen’s hanging, tho. He can just beat her himself.
There is nothing to indicate she isn’t defended.
Next frame could be a horse walking up and smashing that tower.
Get thee to a rookery
Holy hell
I like this version more.
Source?
OP really should’ve provided this source.
For shame. smh…
Sharing a cropped version too.
Seriously.
Rude.
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.
The rook was initially a chariot.
jesters? they’re bishops…
Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.
well, til!
And in German they’re “Runners”
I’ll add Spanish! “Alfil”, taken from arabic “(al-)fil”, taken from persian “pil”, meaning “the elephant”, since at some point in the past the piece was, evidently, an elephant.
You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.
well in my language they’re “runners” so i guess i should have thought a bit harder there…
Potato potato
Towers are made of stone
Okay 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.
I kinda wish we’d kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.
Definetly.
Calvary?
Cavalry is horse mounted soldiers. Calvary is some bible thing.
Yes. It appears I responded to the wrong comment. I was pointing out they misspelled Cavalry on the Atlas Obscura map.
/pedantry
It’s not checkmate then, now it’s it.
Well, she did only say check.
I See a body check, Mate.
Sacrifice DA QUEEN
Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.
No… Rooks are chariots Bishops are elephant and Queen is literally queen ml/in
नहीं. हाथी, घोडा, उंट, वजीर.
Queen is actually vizier പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്
Queen is actually vizier
That’s what I said
പക്ഷേ തേര് മന്ത്രി ആന കുതിര ഇങ്ങനെയാണ്
नाही समजलं
Malayalam meh haathi ke badle rathh hothaa he… Bishop is haathi And there is no camel
TIL
धन्यवाद
ശെരിടാ🙂
“ml/in”?
Do the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what’s a ‘jumper’?
They look the same. A “jumper”, or “springer” in Danish, is just a differently named “knight”.
The second one is inaccurate for Slovenia at least. Both horse and jumper are in use.
There’s a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.
A Super Soaker filled with holy water.
and he always visits the scene of the crime after
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.
Dude, that’s literally the Flying Raijin “Thunder God” technique:
That was a balancing patch. It used to be that bishops could only see only 2 squares and could jump over like horses.
smdh Chess hasn’t had a balance patch in like 200 years.
nerf knights plz chess.com
Classic rook-ey mistake.
slow clap
“Horses can’t be knights. I mean, that’s just silly. Chess is stupid!”
https://youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ
All you need to know about the game
This was magnificent!
But when is the boobs update
