this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Holy hell
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What the fuck
This is cheating
like this
En serpant, a classy move
Holy hell
Google en serpant
Horsey obviously moves in 3D, that's how it jumps over other pieces
I thought they originally teleported, but I was recently informed it was actually tetris blocks.
In some editions, they can also clip through the tiles and move under other pieces
My mom says I can't play backroom tetris anymore.
owo
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...
Take the hypotenuse.
I wish I was high on potenuse
Get off your hypotenuse.
Holy hell anarchy chess is on lemmy
It's one of the most active communities on my instance, which, as someone that never came across it on Reddit, has been hilarious.
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.
I always go around and attack from the back so they don't see it coming
Option 1 and 2
Option 3 is for psychopaths
I'm a psychopath????
Yes, welcome to the club