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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

What the fuck

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is cheating

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Horsey obviously moves in 3D, that's how it jumps over other pieces

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

I thought they originally teleported, but I was recently informed it was actually tetris blocks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In some editions, they can also clip through the tiles and move under other pieces

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mom says I can't play backroom tetris anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

So it actually moves into the imaginary plane

[–] paddirn 3 points 1 year ago

Thinking outside the box.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish I was high on potenuse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Get off your hypotenuse.

[–] coconutxyz 3 points 1 year ago

Hey I said that!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When my dad and grandpa were teaching me how to play chess, they told me that the knight moves in a "G" pattern. I could not for the life of me figure out how a G maps to what they showed me, so I figured out that it goes one diagonal, and then eitger one up if the diagonal was up, one down if it was down and the same reasoning for left and right. That's still how I visualize it.

Years later I realized that they meant the cyrillic G, which looks like this: Γ...

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

The first one because it represents a charging horse hitting someone off to their side with a lance.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] leo_agiad 9 points 1 year ago

This is the correct answer. It is literally the point of the piece.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy hell anarchy chess is on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It's one of the most active communities on my instance, which, as someone that never came across it on Reddit, has been hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You missed. One straight then one diagonal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This, only I do one diagonal and then one straight.

It weirds me out that people conceptualize it as turning a corner, the way OP has here.

[–] dimspace 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has blown my brain. I have never considered doing the diagonal first.

But then, my entire life I mounted a bicycle from the left, right leg over first. It occurred to me I did this so tried to mount my bike from the opposite direction. After finally figuring out how to even move my left left over the bars, I then fell over.

So based purely on this experience, I shall continue to do forward, followed by diagonal.

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

This is how they move in Xiangqi, Chinese Chess, because if the one straight in front of them is blocked, the move is illegal.

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[–] dimspace 5 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Option 1 and 2
Option 3 is for psychopaths

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Selmafudd 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, welcome to the club

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A two by three diagonal straight from the origin to the destination.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As the ~~crow~~ horsey flies

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[–] wieson 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always go around and attack from the back so they don't see it coming

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I draw a circle sqrt(5) units in radius, then pick a target square based on whether that circle goes through the exact center of the square.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Usually A, or B. But C after a few drinks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The long bit, then the short bit.

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

Left 5, up 2, right 4, for example. If there's not enough space on the board to do that, I can't move the horsey that way

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Why not triangulate?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

D. A portal opens on the start and end square and the horsey just falls through

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

I do it as one space in a cardinal direction and then one diagonal in the same direction.

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

Have you considered, teleportation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's nothing personnel, kid

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Depends if you trained it for dressage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Mine goes forward, spits on the opposing king's face, then comes back to the desired square

[–] Guster 5 points 1 year ago

I move in circles around the board and then home in on the desired squares. We all know horses could move however they want if they weren't so stupid

[–] Gxost 5 points 1 year ago

It just teleports. This proves when chess was invented it was far ahead of time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I do one up and then one to up-right

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Longest direction first for me, no matter where I go it is two steps then one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I make an S shape

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