I got bored with chess so I started playing Shogi. It's the same thing, but different.
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Bruh, queen is so OP! It's BULLSHIT!
She's such a Mary Sue.
I mean it did get forked into shogi.
But if you wanted to turn chess into a 4X game, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi?wprov=sfla1
"One game may be played over several long sessions and require each player to make over a thousand moves."
But bots have become a big problem for this game recently.
I bet a bot can beat you at Counter Strike too if we made them as strong as possible like chess bots.
Funny story time:
I had someone cheat against me the other day (without me realizing it, because I don't have the game sense to tell), then offer a draw in a clearly winning position. I guess they were trying to avoid detection, but I decided that I didn't want their handout, declined the draw offer, and resigned.
The system immediately flagged them as cheating and refunded my elo, so I guess all's well that ends well.
What is elo?
It's the rating system for competitive gaming that was originally developed for chess, but has since been applied to all sorts of gaming, sports, etc. sometimes you might even hear people refer to a game's matchmaking rating as "elo", even it's not called that.
Also, fun fact: it's not an acronym, it's a guy's name:
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Excellent Chad loss, my man
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Folks over at c/AnarchyChess are feeling so triggered rn
Eh. My last move was to tie a ballistic missile to a pawn and roll it down a pinball machine. Their move is to keep it from hitting the bottom and exploding. That would keep them occupied for a while.
It's ok, we're two steps past them now. I think we're safe.
Well, balance is quite a bit easier if everything is a mirror match. And they still fucked it up, white has the starting advantage.
Having your opponent make the first move can absolutely be an advantage since it hints to the strategy they're going with.
I typically choose black for that reason.
Nah, staring position is zugzwang, black gets to capitalise on whites blunder in the opening.
Ah, there was a rule update just "recently" (1971). You could technically castle across the vertical board if you promoted to rook.
Castling itself (as a single move) is a 17th century balance update. Before that it was done as separate moves. But the only reason castling became a thing was because the Queen and Bishop were buffed in the 15th century allowing them to threaten more spaces. This made it more advantageous to fortify the king’s position than to have him flee.
Google ~~en passant~~ vertical castling
O-O-O-O-O-O#
Jesus christ, lol
The Picard Maneuver of checkmates if I've ever seen one
PIcard tried to pull some shit and the dog knocked the pieces over in frustration, I'm certain
Picard opened with the Amar: Krazy Kat variation and the dog couldn't help himself.
(I had no idea this opening existed. I just googled, assuming there had to be one with "cat" in the name)
pawn hitbot STILL bugged after a dash action
>not a single balance update since the 8th century
You're just begging AnarchyChess to correct you.
OK, I looked it up on Wikipedia. The bishop and queen were the last to have their moves set changed to the modern form in the 15th or 16th century. But even since then there have been some tweaks, such as the 3 move and 50 move rules for draws, and the orientation of the board. So you could maybe argue no balancing since the 16th century, and only a few bug fixes after that.
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They're going to tell me to google something. I can feel it.
You should only Googling things en passant, and not hang around too long.
I’ll show myself out.
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Devs abandoned it, players won't