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You've heard of Elf on the Shelf (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

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[-] Penta@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

google en passant

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Sacré bleu!

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Holy hell

[-] Penta@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

old response just dropped

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh I was just thinking chess, but not a specific move within chess.

[-] kernelle@0d.gs 19 points 1 year ago

You've strangely misspelled holy hell

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I'm out of the loop, can someone catch me up on the holy hell thing?

[-] kernelle@0d.gs 10 points 1 year ago

En passant has always been the most obscure chess rule, in online chess it's often reported as cheating. Which resulted in a lot of people saying "google en passant", on an unkown lemmy clone someone realising it's an actual chess move replied, holy hell, and a meme was born.