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This snake is pretty hot
like 99% of comments here are gonna be stalemate or en passant
so to switch it up my hot snake NOT about chess is stale meat!
I agree with this viewpoint. I believe that sometimes a doubled pawn might not be that bad if the players know how to navigate the middle game well. And a pair of bishops is only generally better than knights, but it really depends on the context (. knights dominates well if it is placed at the center or in a closed osition).
I think the topic speaks for itself. Just post your biggest chess HOT snakes🔥 and watch as your one singular post sparks the biggest controversy you've ever seen(it probably won't but...). Hot snakes are things you find displeasing about chess. Give an explanation to your snake(or don't that could also work lol) and just hope you don't wake up to a million hate comments! Reply to a take with a or depending on whether or not you agree with it. I've searched multiple times to find a chess hot snake forum and...I genuinely couldn't find a singular one soooooo I decided to make one of my own! Anyway here's my biggest chess hot snake:
Chess is a partially luck-based game. Just hear me out(Im definitely gonna get called out because of this)😅. For every move you make, it makes an impact on the overall game and the future, but we obviously can't predict what you or your opponent will play for say the next 40 moves. So, if you really think about it sometimes a piece will just conveniently or inconveniently be there for some crazy checkmate or your absolute demise. You can argue with something like "that's why you plan ahead" but again if you really think about it that's just an educated move and you've got no idea when or how it'll actually end up hurting you sometimes. Positions can get weird and even a single pawn your opponent ended up pushing 1 square up like 20 moves ago can make an absolute comeback into the game and do all sorts of things like: promote, just conveniently be there to cut off your king, being the game winning piece by somehow forcing a checkmate, etc. Chess has emergent outcomes and while you can somewhat control it by preparing yourself you'll never be able to fully predict the outcome. So whether or not you agree with me I think that chess is partially luck-based which kind of sucks. (ok it's not like I'm saying it's mostly luck or anything it just has a wee bit of luck in it).
(spin-off to hot takes)