Chess is a gender-neutral game secretly built by progressive monks during the Spanish Inquisition
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The Spanish Inquisition? Well I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
mgx9600 wrote:
While playing chess with my son at a club, I had this discussion with him and the surrounding folks...
So if a pawn gets promoted into a queen, and we generally thought of a pawn as a man (or as my son puts it, the king's royal bodyguards)... ok, I think most will know where this is headed.
Now, if the king's original queen isn't killed off yet (or did get killed but king already remarried)... then you'd have a king with many wives.
So the above isn't all that interesting by itself. However, then I talked about how chess rules may have changed thru history. Perhaps somebody purposely "guided" it to this state as a humorous trick. Now, that'd be very interesting.
But do you know that the pawn identifies as male... or that the queen identifies as female (which seems to be what you're implying)?
Wow. This is original
Chess used to be an all male-figure game. The queen was the vizier and a very weak piece, move only two squares diagonally. A chess game would sometimes take days to finish.
bwburke94 wrote:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Right you are. Their main weapon is surprise!
Jun 18, 2017
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#8
Chess was an invention of the church to get our minds off pagan dice games.
Jun 18, 2017
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#9
dave863 wrote:
Chess was an invention of the church to get our minds off pagan dice games.
Source? It's ancestor came to the Arabs from Persian, who got the original version from India. The names for many moves. like "checkmate" in English and its variants in other languages are Persian in origin, like "shah mat" - the king is helpless. The original game was called chaturanga (four divisions: infantry, cavalry, elephantry, chariotry) in India, chatrang in Persia, and shatranj by the Arabs. When it came to Spain and spread through Europe, most European languages called the game something based on the original Persian word "shah" (king).
Jun 18, 2017
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#10
Calm down, not entirely serious. The essential elements of our game are the moves of the bishops and queen, which developed between 1475 and 1500.
Jun 19, 2017
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#12
"guided" my back side, it was a devious plot concocted by the French from the outset.
What do you expect from a nation that will literally put anything in their mouthes?
Dubious-Duck wrote:
"guided" my back side, it was a devious plot concocted by the French from the outset.
What do you expect from a nation that will literally put anything in their mouthes?
That would certainly explain the size and shape of the pieces, as well as the board's resemblance to a table cloth.
"I honestly believe it [chess] was invented by an ancient goddess."
-GM G. Koltanowski 
Jun 19, 2017
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#17
Exactly ! What has the French ever done for chess? They came up with en-passant the little poncy side-step a pawn makes when threatened. Great way to show courage under fire! Vive le France!
and don't forget that great addition the game so needed called j'adoube which allows you to fondle your bishops to your heart's content without actually needing to move them.
This is why French Fries should be called coward sticks.
Dubious-Duck wrote:
Exactly ! What has the French ever done for chess? They came up with en-passant the little poncy side-step a pawn makes when threatened. Great way to show courage under fire! Vive le France!
and don't forget that great addition the game so needed called j'adoube which allows you to fondle your bishops to your heart's content without actually needing to move them.
This is why French Fries should be called coward sticks.
I think there's also a chess defense named after that nation but I can't remember what it is.
VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!
Jun 19, 2017
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#19
Yes, the French defence it involves an apology, crying ,complaining about the weather, the un-level playing field , a short but bitter account of English long-bow men and waving a white flag before playing the ultra timid e6.
While playing chess with my son at a club, I had this discussion with him and the surrounding folks...
So if a pawn gets promoted into a queen, and we generally thought of a pawn as a man (or as my son puts it, the king's royal bodyguards)... ok, I think most will know where this is headed.
Now, if the king's original queen isn't killed off yet (or did get killed but king already remarried)... then you'd have a king with many wives.
So the above isn't all that interesting by itself. However, then I talked about how chess rules may have changed thru history. Perhaps somebody purposely "guided" it to this state as a humorous trick. Now, that'd be very interesting.