this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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AnarchyChess

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Holy hell

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] milmino@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy hell anarchy chess is on lemmy

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

It's one of the most active communities on my instance, which, as someone that never came across it on Reddit, has been hilarious.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

This is cheating

[–] urda@lebowski.social 0 points 2 years ago

What the fuck

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago

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...

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I always go around and attack from the back so they don't see it coming

[–] JungleGeorge@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Option 1 and 2
Option 3 is for psychopaths

[–] IDew@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yes, welcome to the club

[–] sanbeiji@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] swab148@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish I was high on potenuse

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Get off your hypotenuse.

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

Horsey obviously moves in 3D, that's how it jumps over other pieces

[–] urda@lebowski.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought they originally teleported, but I was recently informed it was actually tetris blocks.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In some editions, they can also clip through the tiles and move under other pieces

[–] urda@lebowski.social 0 points 2 years ago

My mom says I can't play backroom tetris anymore.