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There's a bishop 500m away with a sniper too.
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.
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A Super Soaker filled with holy water.
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
Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Potato potato
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...
The rook was initially a chariot.
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.
https://youtu.be/U_Re0sc85zo?si=NtcFYWZksHDj-HVJ
All you need to know about the game
But when is the boobs update
This was magnificent!
Sacrifice DA QUEEN
Source?
OP really should've provided this source.
For shame. smh...
Sharing a cropped version too.
Seriously.
Rude.
/pedantry
It's not checkmate then, now it's it.
I See a body check, Mate.
"Horses can't be knights. I mean, that's just silly. Chess is stupid!"
Holy hell
Get thee to a rookery
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