Reality Check by Dave Whamond for July 03, 2024

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    Gent  5 months ago

    King n queen make no sense in chess. Originally and even now in indic languages the piece what is called queen in English is acutually the mantri (minister) or a senapati (general).

    It is meaningful battlefield game using power of mind where a king’s army is battles with opponent army and tries to protects their king (and theirs kingdom, as king is representetive). Each piece was named after something involved in the actual battlefield. King, Minister / general, horse / cavalry, chariot / camel, elephant, and if course the soldiers. The board be like battlefield where the battle is goes on involving the participants on that battlefield.

    But then Europeans has to comes and renames pieces as per their whims, which makes no sense or meaning. A Bishop? Does a bishop even goes into battle on the battlefield? A Rook? A gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage is get in battle too? You is turns elephant into a gregarious crow? A pawn? You calls yours soldiers pawns? You is pawns them for a loan or sometheeng?

    Eh no thankses. We is going to uses the original names for the pieces that we was always does.

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    Doug K  5 months ago

    First: Move one step in any direction.

    Next: Move one step in any direction.

    Then: Move one step in any direction.

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    pat sandy creator 5 months ago

    It’s good to be King…

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    Dobie  Premium Member 5 months ago

    Chess… pffft!

    Angry Birds… now THERE’S a difficult game!!!

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    Howard'sMyHero  5 months ago

    Checkers Mate …!

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    brick10  5 months ago

    Small steps, Sire. Small steps.

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    the lost wizard  5 months ago

    Is everyone else on board with this? :)

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    Frank Burns Eats Worms  5 months ago

    What a royal pain!

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    lnrokr55  5 months ago

    Move me on to any black squareUse me any time you wantJust remember that the goalIs for us all to capture all we want, anywhere (Move me on to any black square)Yeah Yeah Yeah !!!

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    Mike Baldwin creator 5 months ago

    Ha! Very funny and clever.

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    zeexenon  5 months ago

    Well, reset it to plot the shortest and fastest route.

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    tlmatcsc  5 months ago

    Recalculating!

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    goboboyd  5 months ago

    One step at a time. But no one is going to tell the King that. Ok, you can Castle, but only once lifetime (game).

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    mistercatworks  5 months ago

    Queens have the most direct movement of any of the chess pieces, so I don’t get it.

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    Chris Sherlock  5 months ago

    Ah, chess is for squares!

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    Norris66  5 months ago

    When I let my cat play chess, they all move everywhere.

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    unfair.de  5 months ago

    GPS doesn’t get you anywhere. It just tells you where you are right now.

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    christelisbetty  5 months ago

    Since there doesn’t appear to be any other pieces on the board, what difference does it make ?

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    wildlandwaters  5 months ago

    better check your GPS, mate…

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