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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IIRC the reason the queen is such a powerful piece is because the original piece was called something like "The Commander" or "The Champion", and the idea of that being a separate person from the King didn't make sense once the game reached Europe amid the chivalric code and specific rules about how lords and monarchs are to be handled on the battlefield.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're probably after the vizier. Apocryphally, the queen's moves as currently seen originated when Queen Isobella I of Spain was pissed that the queen was a weak piece, it did indeed arise in Spain during her reign, whether for that reason is left to the reader's imagination.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought there was no queen back then, because you can have several queen pawns, and it must always have one queen.

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

Tfw no harem in chess

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

She can slay me

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The king is not weak. In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

Statistically the pawn to the rightmost of the white king also survives in some 70%, while the queen only has about 49% chance of survival to the end.

The knights and the pawn in front of the queen are the first to go.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago

The king is not weak. In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

Yes, well that's because he puts everyone else in harm's way first. Typical behavior for a "noble".

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In 100% of games it's the last piece to fall.

I see we haven't been matched yet. I will quit in any of these cases (I call these legal cheats, because frankly it shouldn't be allowed):

  • castling, obviously
  • en passant, obviously
  • promotion, obviously
  • horsey jumping in front of the pawns as first move (wtf)
  • pawns moving 2 squares (op)
  • bishop taking my rook (unfair, I didn't mean that last move)
  • me having the black (imba)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When en passant is forced but now you have to resign because you played a legal cheat

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

You can just declare stalemate. OP moves don’t count as legal moves.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The parallel to real battles is amusing from a symbolic perspective. The survivors are the useless pieces of shit who can't even attack.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake 1 points 2 years ago

I think you're mixing up strength and survivability. Toddlers are much weaker than professional MMA fighters, yet the so-called "professionals" get knocked out far more often.

[–] WiseThat 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shouldn't the black king be on a white square and the queen on her own colour?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

They're white

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

That's woke. #CancelChess.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The real story is how a king as old and frail as him managed to get a queen as young, fit and loyal as her, willing to slay anything that appears within her sight...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The king is just 30, but his body is so frail from the hourly snu snu.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

...and centuries of royal inbreeding

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Just look at her.

He's getting no rest at all.

Salute

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It was an arranged marriage. She was 14

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

Everyone here knows that the only way to know who's the best chess player is by having a best of 3 1v1 king only final destination with no item

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We should rename the king to wizard and he should cast AOE spells

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

I guess he kinda does, but the AOE range is only one square

[–] caseyweederman 1 points 2 years ago

You're describing Archon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't the Queen sit on her own colour?

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

She sits wherever she wants, thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

He might be feeble and only able to move a step at a time but he is radioactive. Anyone who is backed into a corner by him is dead meat. Dude is terrifying.