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The existing chess community on lemmy.ml/c/chess seems to be dead, moderators are not reachable and is hosted on .ml which is defederated by many instances.
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| Player | Rating |
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Maybe in the future, once there is a community
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Its silly! Taking the queen is not the move here. Moving the white queen to force the king to take is, putting it in a corner for the rook to mate