Non-chess players ask, "Why does it matter if the black square is in the right corner? It is still the same board."
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Squarely wrote:
Non-chess players ask, "Why does it matter if the black square is in the right corner? It is still the same board."
I become very amused when trying to explain this to non chess players.
What? The horse can't get the lighthous out if it jumps over it? BS*!
*BS = bullshark
Dec 15, 2014
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#4246
Knightsacrifice wrote:
Squarely wrote:
Non-chess players ask, "Why does it matter if the black square is in the right corner? It is still the same board."
I become very amused when trying to explain this to non chess players.
Yup. If recording a game, the game notation would be very messed up.
What irks me even more is when people who DO know chess set the board up quickly that way and when I call 'em on it they go, 'Oh, just play.'
JayBo308 wrote:
What irks me even more is when people who DO know chess set the board up quickly that way and when I call 'em on it they go, 'Oh, just play.'
Lazy chessplayers!
Knightsacrifice wrote:
JayBo308 wrote:
What irks me even more is when people who DO know chess set the board up quickly that way and when I call 'em on it they go, 'Oh, just play.'
Lazy chessplayers!
That happens to me too and I get really annoyed (especially when they insist that "it doesn't matter")!
I'm a stickler for proper board setup.
Dec 15, 2014
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#4251
I didn't know this, but a checker board is set up the same way, besides the fact that the squares are red and black. Red square on the right hand corner. There are a few incorrect pics on Google from online sites that sell checker sets, showing the black square on the right hand corner instead. But when we were kids I'm sure we didn't notice the difference when messing around with checkers?!?!? (Well yes that is checkers and not chess.)
Dec 16, 2014
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#4252
The hilarious point about the entire "white square at h1" convention is people who are otherwise really smart in other areas will correctly point that in theory it shouldn't matter. What the fail to understand is, after the hours of study and playing enough games that you sometimes dream about the game and are able to play blindfold chess, putting the black square on h1 looks just as wrong as putting your underwear on over your pants. For that matter, it is funny how a lot of Ph.D.'s and M.D. assume their genius in one tiny sliver of knowledge makes the experts at everything (politics, flying a twin-engine Beach Bonaza airplane). Their path of destruction is long and wide.
@ Squarely: You are precisely correct. I personally know a handfull of "know-it-alls." And all of them hate it when I know something they don't or can make logical deductions when they can't.
Flying a Beach Bonanza without a license? Better need a parachute and a raincoat...
Dec 16, 2014
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#4255
What I hear from my wife, as she comes into my study and sees me staring at the the chess board... "Since your not busy, can you...."
SMH
Dec 16, 2014
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#4257
That happens a lot with reading... people assume you're relaxing when you've got a book in your hand. Actually, your mind is hard at work reading those words and putting together the story! I guess it's an illusion of a relaxed state...
Most people, sadly, don't exercise the mind.
People who only know how the pieces move but have never heard of en passant like to say, "I know how to play chess. My father gave me a chess set."