this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
371 points (98.2% liked)

AnarchyChess

5541 readers
117 users here now

Holy hell

Other chess communities:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Matrix space

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 30 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Reject norms, become king

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I liked chess before it gone woke

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

Transitioning en passant

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Stop assuming my pawns' gender! Get your own gender, copycat!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can I be a trans-furry? (aka: be Overpowered AF)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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).

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

Kinda makes more sense tbh. I mean, a tower? let's be real those can't move

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

attribution editI 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:

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

And a Buttersafe take on this:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey if a woman can be King - it's happened, look it up - then a man can be Queen. Or in Queen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

A man May be in Queen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can a pawn change into another pawn? Asking for a very stupid friend

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012023 3.7.3.3 No.

It'd be an extreme edge case where not promoting would be useful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Pawn can't capture sideways, how would it ever be useful?

[–] gamma 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Forcing stalemate if you're super down in material

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Maybe if any promotion would lead to a stalemate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If your opponent plays strictly by a point system, like a computer might, and if the piece is threatened, it might be beneficial to keep the value low to trick the oppont to do something else, while you keep the useless pawn as an obstruction, which could somehow limit your opponent's future moves.

Anyway, it's apparantly not allowed.

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

Well exactly. I can't think of one. It could only be useful in a situation where having a dead weight in a cell would solve some problem or other, but I've no idea how.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have been trying to apply the pattern behind this chess opening but now i am stuck in this position. What is my best move?

(i am truly sorry)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, if I become a horse they just gonna put me down immediately (so a win),
if I become a derelict crumbing building I'll feel exactly the same way as now,
if I change gender that won't help me with my ugly,
and if I join a cult I better make sure it's the one following the dark (black) path.

So anyway a furry is the answer.

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

Becoming a furry also turns you straightn't, this 💯% checks out

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

That's not just a furrry, look at the animal.

That pawn is considering going brony.

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

Wait ... Can I play chess using nothing but knights? 🤔

I wouldn't capture the king. I would trample him under a stampede of horses.

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

Well in theory you could lose your queen, bishops and rooks, and promote all 8 pawns to knights. Your opponent would likely have to play along, possibly even doing the same.

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

Thank you for mentioning furries and not therians /srs

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

[looks up]

Ah, otherkin. Must be the early 2010s again.

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

You have been banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone