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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago
[-] urda@lebowski.social 8 points 1 year ago

What the fuck

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

This is cheating

[-] mihor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago
[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Google en serpant

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Horsey obviously moves in 3D, that's how it jumps over other pieces

[-] urda@lebowski.social 2 points 1 year ago

I thought they originally teleported, but I was recently informed it was actually tetris blocks.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

In some editions, they can also clip through the tiles and move under other pieces

[-] urda@lebowski.social 3 points 1 year ago

My mom says I can't play backroom tetris anymore.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

When my dad and grandpa were teaching me how to play chess, they told me that the knight moves in a "G" pattern. I could not for the life of me figure out how a G maps to what they showed me, so I figured out that it goes one diagonal, and then eitger one up if the diagonal was up, one down if it was down and the same reasoning for left and right. That's still how I visualize it.

Years later I realized that they meant the cyrillic G, which looks like this: Γ...

[-] sanbeiji@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
[-] swab148@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I wish I was high on potenuse

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Get off your hypotenuse.

[-] milmino@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Holy hell anarchy chess is on lemmy

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

It's one of the most active communities on my instance, which, as someone that never came across it on Reddit, has been hilarious.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I draw a circle sqrt(5) units in radius, then pick a target square based on whether that circle goes through the exact center of the square.

[-] Hogger85b@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You missed. One straight then one diagonal

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

This is how they move in Xiangqi, Chinese Chess, because if the one straight in front of them is blocked, the move is illegal.

[-] wieson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I always go around and attack from the back so they don't see it coming

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The first one because it represents a charging horse hitting someone off to their side with a lance.

[-] JungleGeorge@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Option 1 and 2
Option 3 is for psychopaths

[-] IDew@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago
[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, welcome to the club

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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