#Chess

[evergreantrees]

The uprising is beginning

[divorcedwife]

chess inspired fashion

[motorizedduck]

Just today I got to see a chess book that I remember reading as a little kid. While it didn't give me a lifelong passion for chess, it did give me a lifelong passion for fantasy for its artwork.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

This artwork is amazing, evocative, exciting and dramatic. I recommend giving it a look if you have a chance - you can probably scrounge up a PDF of this thing with a bit of searching.

[kowarth]

Getting an Osgate vibe here that seems a little too cruel either way around

Sometimes having a reputation for being smart beats actually being smart.

I once beat my school’s chess champion in a game because he spent the entire match desperately trying to work out my strategy because I was “smart” and therefore good at chess.

We were playing with a Lord of the Rings chess set. I was moving the characters I liked best.

I’m terrible at chess.

[triviallytrue]

people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

[cosmonautroger]

the knight's tour

[ganpan14o]

5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel? What's the 5D stand for, 5 dicks?

okay Rook goes crazy for a non-binary name though

[offonaherosjourney]

Last night I dreamed that someone invented a new version of chess called Rookmeo and Juliet where two rooks are in love and trying to run away together. To achieve this they have to make it to the other side of the board, but these rooks don't have any visible signs to differenciate them from the rest, just a small mark in their base. Neither of the players knows what rook from the other side is in love with their rook, so they have to play a regular game of chess, fully aware that they might unknowingly kill the lover of their rook. If they kill it, the game keeps going, but their rook betrays them, switches sides and turns into a second queen for the other player. People wrote a ton of essays about the symbolism and metaphors of that version of chess and the creator didn't have the heart to tell them that he simply invented it because he thought Rookmeo was a great pun

[richizze]

Wait, I've seen this somewhere before 🤔

[soberapathy]

𝜗𝜚 — i promise i'm cool, you guys.

[anotheruserwithnoname]

^ This. ChatGPT is meant to help people who have momentary writer's block. It's not meant to replace their ability to think. And this is "just" chess. I bet pitting ChatGPT against a Go Master would send the app running home to its virtual mama.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

[blondebrainpowered]

Lipstick Check, 1955

Photographer: Chaloner Woods

[dozydawn]

IM Ekaterina Atalik.

[targetedknowledge]

[charlie-vermin]

You could combine it with drawback chess, adding a different secret rule each player must obey. Let the advisors know each other's drawbacks, while the rulers only know their own drawback. This way the advisors would always have more knowledge than the rulers.

I just came up with a really inconvenient, possibly unplayable four-player game: The Evil Advisor

All you need is a completely normal chess board and a deck of cards that you can somehow divide into an even amount of cards that mean "yes" or "no". Out of the four players, only two need to know how to play chess - those play the role of advisor. The other two play as rulers. At the start of the game, both advisors pull a random card from the deck, which dictates whether their goal is to win the game, or lose it. They keep their respective card, showing it to nobody else.

The rulers, who ultimately choose where to move the pieces, always aim to win the chess game, and also know that the advisor may or may not be on their side, and don't know whether to trust the advisor or not.

If the ruler wins the chess game, they win the whole game. An advisor only wins if they reach their own goal - if an advisor's goal was to lose, but the ruler wins, the advisor loses, and vice versa.