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[–] Ediacarium@feddit.org 36 points 2 years ago

Reject norms, become king

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I liked chess before it gone woke

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago

Transitioning en passant

[–] sxan@midwest.social 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Stop assuming my pawns' gender! Get your own gender, copycat!

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey if a woman can be King - it's happened, look it up - then a man can be Queen. Or in Queen.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

A man May be in Queen.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have been trying to apply the pattern behind this chess opening but now i am stuck in this position. What is my best move?

(i am truly sorry)

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can a pawn change into another pawn? Asking for a very stupid friend

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012023 3.7.3.3 No.

It'd be an extreme edge case where not promoting would be useful.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Pawn can't capture sideways, how would it ever be useful?

[–] gamma@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Forcing stalemate if you're super down in material

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe if any promotion would lead to a stalemate

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 years ago

If your opponent plays strictly by a point system, like a computer might, and if the piece is threatened, it might be beneficial to keep the value low to trick the oppont to do something else, while you keep the useless pawn as an obstruction, which could somehow limit your opponent's future moves.

Anyway, it's apparantly not allowed.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Well exactly. I can't think of one. It could only be useful in a situation where having a dead weight in a cell would solve some problem or other, but I've no idea how.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, if I become a horse they just gonna put me down immediately (so a win),
if I become a derelict crumbing building I'll feel exactly the same way as now,
if I change gender that won't help me with my ugly,
and if I join a cult I better make sure it's the one following the dark (black) path.

So anyway a furry is the answer.

[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Becoming a furry also turns you straightn't, this 💯% checks out

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That's not just a furrry, look at the animal.

That pawn is considering going brony.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wait ... Can I play chess using nothing but knights? 🤔

I wouldn't capture the king. I would trample him under a stampede of horses.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Well in theory you could lose your queen, bishops and rooks, and promote all 8 pawns to knights. Your opponent would likely have to play along, possibly even doing the same.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for mentioning furries and not therians /srs

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[looks up]

Ah, otherkin. Must be the early 2010s again.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

You have been banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone