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[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months 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] 46 points 9 months 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.

[–] topinambour_rex 7 points 9 months 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.

[–] TheBat 7 points 9 months ago

Tfw no harem in chess

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

She can slay me

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 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] 66 points 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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)
[–] Olmai 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Pregnenolone 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months 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.

[–] Why9 18 points 9 months 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] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Why9 12 points 9 months ago

Just look at her.

He's getting no rest at all.

Salute

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

...and centuries of royal inbreeding

[–] BleatingZombie 9 points 9 months ago

It was an arranged marriage. She was 14

[–] Cossty 17 points 9 months ago

That's woke. #CancelChess.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months 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] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

They're white

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't the Queen sit on her own colour?

[–] dancingdots 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

She sits wherever she wants, thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago