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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Gotta give it to the trebuchet man, to nail a king in his throne with a horse from that far away, that is math as fuck.

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

"now a little to the left aaaaand..." YEET

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That piece is called a knight, so there should be a rider getting tossed over there with the horse.

Maybe that little black smudge is the rider who bravely volunteered to go first and test the trajectory.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Impressively fast reload!

[-] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@samus12345 well, no, that's a common misconception. The technical term is Horsie.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Google en passant.

En passant is a French term meaning “by peasant” and it dates to the French Revolution. It means that pawns can capture sideways if they really want to. It’s because they normally capture at an angle of 45 degrees, but if they move to the front of the horizontal square it’s really only a matter of being like 60 degrees or so, depending on where they were on the originating square.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

En passant is a French term meaning “by peasant”

No, it means "in passing." "Par un paysan" would be French for "by peasant."

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Poe's law applies.

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

En passant is French for in passing.

The French word for peasant is paysan.

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Fetchez la vache!

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