ilovesmetuna wrote:
boy this thread sure died.
Thanks again. 
Why Is the Rook so Short?
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Should the rook be felted at both ends in case there is a queen shortage?
no, just have more queens lol
ilovesmetuna wrote:
i think Einstein has the answer to this. the rook is not actually short, it's relatively short for a king that is bigger than it, but as we said, the rook is only the kings loo, the part he sits on.
the rook is the king's castle lol
Einstein would say that all of the pieces' defined size would be small (or a similar adjective), as all of the pieces are relatively small to their real counterparts. A real rook, queen, pawn, etc. would never be as small as the pieces are, so the pieces would have to be considered small. It can't be considered a regular size nor a large size since the real thing could never be that small.
ilovesmetuna wrote:
i think Einstein has the answer to this. the rook is not actually short, it's relatively short for a king that is bigger than it, but as we said, the rook is only the kings loo, the part he sits on.
I can never remember if Einstein addressed the rook's height in special or general relativity.
Ziggy_Zugzwang wrote:
Should the rook be felted at both ends in case there is a queen shortage?
That's not a bad idea because there is often a queen shortage - especially when my opponent is one of those annoying people who refuse to resign. I make him wait until I've queened each of my pawns before putting him out of his misery. When I run out of upside down rooks, I use salt shakers and vanilla extract bottles if playing white - or if playing black, pepper shakers and Worcestershire sauce bottles.
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
no, just have more queens lol
Have you not studied economics? Do you know what happens to the price of queens when there's a shortage? Through the roof! The solution is to buy more rooks.
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
ilovesmetuna wrote:
i think Einstein has the answer to this. the rook is not actually short, it's relatively short for a king that is bigger than it, but as we said, the rook is only the kings loo, the part he sits on.
the rook is the king's castle lol
Einstein would say that all of the pieces' defined size would be small (or a similar adjective), as all of the pieces are relatively small to their real counterparts. A real rook, queen, pawn, etc. would never be as small as the pieces are, so the pieces would have to be considered small. It can't be considered a regular size nor a large size since the real thing could never be that small.
If Einstein had said that, we wouldn't have heard of him.
lol
Onepiecemania wrote:
lol
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stanhope13 wrote:
Not that kind of rook!
U.K. WEATHER.
FBloggs wrote:
Ziggy_Zugzwang wrote:
Should the rook be felted at both ends in case there is a queen shortage?
That's not a bad idea because there is often a queen shortage - especially when my opponent is one of those annoying people who refuse to resign. I make him wait until I've queened each of my pawns before putting him out of his misery. When I run out of upside down rooks, I use salt shakers and vanilla extract bottles if playing white - or if playing black, pepper shakers and Worcestershire sauce bottles.
Like this ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvBrU1Cofms&t=161s
FBloggs wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
no, just have more queens lol
Have you not studied economics? Do you know what happens to the price of queens when there's a shortage? Through the roof! The solution is to buy more rooks.
XD k then
stanhope13 wrote:
U.K. WEATHER.
Oh.
ilovesmetuna wrote:
because it wears a short shirt ? am i getting warm ?
Unfortunately, no.
I guess Debbie Downer left. What a shame. She was a barrel of laughs.