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Fun fact: In most Indian languages, the queen is the advisor/minister, bishop is camel (rider), rook is elephant (rider), and knight is horse (rider).
Kinda makes more sense tbh. I mean, a tower? let's be real those can't move
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I saved this off a while ago but couldn't find it. Did a DDG search and only found low res versions, but it gave me enough to find the one I saved. After I posted it I realized the one I had was scrubbed of the artist's info. Best I could find of the original has been moved to the post.Looks like the author has a new website, and the only version available is a redraw:
https://www.kohney.com/comic/check-redraw/
Version I uploaded for reference:
And a Buttersafe take on this: