I remember people always saying you could choose what piece you wanted. Though everyone most always chose queen of course. Though I could see someone choosing knight in certain circumstances.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Knight is rarely a better choice indeed, and it might even be optimal to choose a rook or bishop in extraordinary circumstances, such as if choosing a queen leads to a draw

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#History

A pawn originally did not have the option of moving two squares on its first move, and promoted only to a queen upon reaching the eighth rank. The queen was originally the fers or farzin, which could move one square diagonally in any direction.

In the Persian and Arabic game the bishop was a pīl (Persian) or fīl (Arabic) (meaning "elephant") which moved two squares diagonally with jump

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

yoo we still call it fil (elephant) in Turkey

coool

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Türkiye menşınd, biz birinciyiz, asın bayrakları!!

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

yooo "someone from blahaj zone" yorumunu az önce okudum fediverse cidden küçük bir yer

luv this place <3

Hope we get to see r/turkaaa move here. Turkish Reddit has truly became a lot more fascist in the last few years

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not just a problem with fascism, the fucking authlefts/tankies are picking up where the fascists are not found. There's some lefty/regular turk communities and they're kinda bananas.

Gurbetçi olarak pek yazmıyorum, ama topluntu olsa bakmak isterdim. You living gurbet style too?

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, still in Turkey. Hoping to gtfo of the oligarchy asap.

People in this country don't really like me so I kind of embraced foreign social media as a way of escaping reality. You may call it a "online gurbet" i guess.

Life is better these days since I've gotten a really nice irl safe space of mostly Boğaziçi students.

I hope the situation is better outside

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Hoping to gtfo of the oligarchy asap.

Ama goçum yol yabdı! Yollar nereye beyamca?

I'm glad you are fitting in at university. The global economy is dogshit, so ... yeah, gurbet doesn't feel that much better, but to be honest, I'm doing ok. Better than in turkey under that fucker anyway.