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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody knows how the horsey moves anyway so...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As best piece, horsey attacks all squares it moves through, because it's a horse and it's charging.

Think, noobs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a variation of the game like that? And that includes both sides' pieces, right? There is a case of making a piece too powerful for its own good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There is kind of the opposite in Chinese Chess. The field the horsey jumps over has to be empty. And I use the singular because it moves one orthogonal and one diagonal so it's only one field that has to be empty

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean Tbf it is a checkmate in 4.chess be like

[–] odium 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The mythical move where you combine bishop and horsey into a queen?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Knishop, yeah I've heard of the move. I believe it's just a legend though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I thought it was a pawn :P

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a bishop, not a pawn, but regardless, I don't imagine that white has much of a chance

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

This post is about gaslighting and I'm pretty sure, it always was a pawn. Always.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok when the bishop is actually a bishop it’s checkmate in 19 instead so I suppose white holds on for longer at least? chess 2.0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The point of it was that it became a much bigger pain in the ass to win than it initially seemed. Also, your 19 moves is if you don't mess up at all. If it gets stretched to 50 moves, it's a stalemate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just put it in lichess and see how hopeless it's for white.

K7/2b5/1nk5/8/8/8/8/7b w - - 50 26

[–] odium 7 points 2 months ago

Nah, white clearly has advantage here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

What you fail to see is, that the white king owns those two horses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s checkmate in one. I’d probably resign and move on to the next game.

[–] odium 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yes, it's mate in 1 if you perform knishop fusion and combine horsey and bishop into a Queen on the white square next to the white king.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just move King to the one open spot diagonal to Knight, and the move Queen to the spot King just left.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is no queen in the picture

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

omg I thought the black king was a queen, and it looks like everyone else did too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zoom in on the pieces. You're seeing them wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my. You’re right. Sorry about that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

At least I’m in good company :)