half the pieces are black? DEI strikes again ๐
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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.
Youngest ever too, right?
Yeah! He's 18 I think.
Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Chess Championship for wearing blue jeans
extremely serious crime
MtG had a format that punished you for wearing blue jeans. Certain creatures had "denim walking" which made them unblockable if you were wearing denim
There's fairy chess with custom rules. People historically have made changes they see fit to the game.
One thing I've been thinking about a but over the past few years is how standardization is really strange and sort of paralyzing. For how many hundreds of years were there hundreds of regional variants of chess, each with their own history and culture? But at some point these things have become standardized and whatever natural tendency they had to change has been neutered completely. Same thing with a pack of standard playing cards: are those going to have kings, queens and jacks on them forever, even after any sort of resonance these concepts once had have vanished?
Dialectics: standardization just changed the form of the diversity. As standardization came to resolve contradictions in rulesets, it allowed a broader amount of play and deeper tactics and strategies which now define the diversity found. It also makes accessibility higher, so the diversity came in the form of education levels and such too.
That's not to say it's all good, just that the shift is a very normal sort of centralization like you find in many fields.
Idea: replace the king with Stalin, queen with Mao, and the jack will be Lenin.
Stirner will be the joker
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