this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Pov, you are 4 years old and this is your first chess lesson.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago

Chess was so much better before they added all the new pay to win dlc characters that you have to buy if you want to be meta

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's crazy that En Passant was one of the first moves added to chess, and now it's hardly ever used.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: at the very beginning of the evolution of the game, there was only one move - en passant. And the game was called 'en passant game'. 'En passant' comes from the old phoenician 'heēn pąšhãnn' meaning approximately 'en passant'.

The players would take turns doing en passant moves until ultimately no further move could be done, at which point the loser would be eviscerated and his entrails offered in sacrifice to Ba'al. Then everybody would discuss how the loser's opening sucked and how many blunders he did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

New viscera just dropped

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty obvious it's in its alpha stages. Nice that he stuck with the pattern though, he really nailed in on the first try.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually chess 0.0.2 in 0.0.1 and 0.0.0 Garry only had black squares. 0.0.2 was revolutionary when it came out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

The first version had a single square and two kings, but didn't really play well. More pieces and squares were added to stop the constant stalemates.