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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 57 points 6 months ago

IIRC the reason the queen is such a powerful piece is because the original piece was called something like "The Commander" or "The Champion", and the idea of that being a separate person from the King didn't make sense once the game reached Europe amid the chivalric code and specific rules about how lords and monarchs are to be handled on the battlefield.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 47 points 6 months ago

You're probably after the vizier. Apocryphally, the queen's moves as currently seen originated when Queen Isobella I of Spain was pissed that the queen was a weak piece, it did indeed arise in Spain during her reign, whether for that reason is left to the reader's imagination.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I thought there was no queen back then, because you can have several queen pawns, and it must always have one queen.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Tfw no harem in chess

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 36 points 6 months ago

She can slay me

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The king is not weak. In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

Statistically the pawn to the rightmost of the white king also survives in some 70%, while the queen only has about 49% chance of survival to the end.

The knights and the pawn in front of the queen are the first to go.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 67 points 6 months ago

The king is not weak. In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

Yes, well that's because he puts everyone else in harm's way first. Typical behavior for a "noble".

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

I see we haven't been matched yet. I will quit in any of these cases (I call these legal cheats, because frankly it shouldn't be allowed):

  • castling, obviously
  • en passant, obviously
  • promotion, obviously
  • horsey jumping in front of the pawns as first move (wtf)
  • pawns moving 2 squares (op)
  • bishop taking my rook (unfair, I didn't mean that last move)
  • me having the black (imba)
[-] Olmai@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

When en passant is forced but now you have to resign because you played a legal cheat

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago

You can just declare stalemate. OP moves don’t count as legal moves.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Google the nerd emoji

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 6 months ago

The parallel to real battles is amusing from a symbolic perspective. The survivors are the useless pieces of shit who can't even attack.

[-] doctorcrimson 28 points 6 months ago

TBF when they first married she was 13 and he was 40.

I'm really glad that the majority of the world has moved past that point. Although, it seems like only a recent development in India in 2007.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Legal age for marriage has been 18 since 1978. Unlike many states in USA.

...

5 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington.

2 states have a minimum age of 15: Hawaii and Kansas.

23 states have a minimum age of 16.

10 states have a minimum age of 17.

[-] doctorcrimson -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's fair I like that comment. Although a bit silly to compare women's rights between those two nations.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, India isn't curtailing women's right to healthcare under the guise of concern for 'unborn babies'

[-] doctorcrimson -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Literally last year it was in the Indian Supreme Court. At least the USA isn't branding women for rejecting a man.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Indian justice system isn't branding women, you racist fuckwad. Unlike murican system which is letting women die.

You're literally trying to compete with a developing country.

Which is fair because India is progressing while USA is regressing.

Touch grass dipshit. Or go shoot up a school or a mall or something.

[-] doctorcrimson 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, the justice system isn't, but the people are. India is probably second only to Sharia Law nations for the disfigurement of women. Get fucked.

[-] UgandaSans@reddthat.com -1 points 6 months ago

You seem incredibly insecure.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

And you sound like an absolute moron.

[-] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 6 months ago

ayo-

[-] Why9@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

The real story is how a king as old and frail as him managed to get a queen as young, fit and loyal as her, willing to slay anything that appears within her sight...

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 30 points 6 months ago

The king is just 30, but his body is so frail from the hourly snu snu.

[-] Why9@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Just look at her.

He's getting no rest at all.

Salute

[-] KreekyBonez@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

...and centuries of royal inbreeding

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

It was an arranged marriage. She was 14

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

That's woke. #CancelChess.

[-] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago

Shouldn't the black king be on a white square and the queen on her own colour?

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 months ago

They're white

[-] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

Everyone here knows that the only way to know who's the best chess player is by having a best of 3 1v1 king only final destination with no item

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 6 months ago

Doesn't the Queen sit on her own colour?

[-] dancingdots@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

She sits wherever she wants, thank you very much!

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

Slayyyy

[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 12 points 6 months ago

We should rename the king to wizard and he should cast AOE spells

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

I guess he kinda does, but the AOE range is only one square

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

You're describing Archon

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