Chess is non-Euclidean. The hypotenuse is the same length as the opposite or adjacent.
A new way of classifying diagonal movement
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Evan_Tsipas wrote:
movement is a mix of horizontal & diagonal
A typo, but kinda funny that you could indeed describe vertical movement as a mix of a diagonal movement subtracted by a horizontal one.
To make that better, I propose diagonal movements be L-Shaped & jumping as many times as the piec allows, so root 2 doesn't get near this otherwise wonderful game.