if chess were invented today noone would play it because it's from India
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I just noticed he was comparing chess to reality and not video games. Dude thinks tech trees exist irl. Lasers from space that never existed before are admitted in that very statement to not be part of reality.
He's been out of touch with reality since at least the end of Apartheid.
But I hadn't noticed him mixing real life with videogames. Lmao what a dweeb.
Don't forget the terrible takes that would come from the bazingaist of bazinga brains. Without the thousands of years of history of chess, these takes would be more popular.
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half the pieces are black? DEI strikes again 🙄
The chess subreddit is sort of like that still though. Just last month, Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans. Then soon after FIDE changed the dress code so that Magnus could keep playing, maybe from the pressure of sponsors. Magnus Carlsen went on play in a final match against Ian Nepomniachtchi. After 3 drawn games, both players agreed to share the World Chess Champion title. It is the first time in history that a world chess championship title has been shared. There was a lot of criticism of the decision.
Just a small note: it was the world Blitz championship, which is a variant of chess that's played really quickly. The current world champion is from India, Gukesh Dommaraju. I don't want to be nitpicky, but I wanted to recognize Gukesh's achievements.
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Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans
extremely serious crime
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One lib rails against the divisiveness of hypermodern play, pleads for a return to the moderate centre ground. Another suggests turning the board sideways so everyone gets to attack the left.
Another suggests turning the board sideways so everyone gets to attack the left.
r/cth flashbacks
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En passant was literally added as a balance patch.
I know, and they'll cry about that too. Like vanilla wow.
give me the lore 
Originally, pawns could only move one square. However, to speed up the openings, they started playing so that the first move pawns made could be 2 squares.
That created a dilemma, though; now, if an opponent pawn was in position to capture yours if it moved forward one square from its start, you could evade capture by moving two squares instead. So they created the en passant rule, which allowed the capture of a pawn moving two squares as if it had moved just one square instead.
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If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers who's sense of humor maxes out with 2. Ke2
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I would imagine everyone had it because the no E-Sports scene.
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