this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Penta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Penta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

old response just dropped

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I was just thinking chess, but not a specific move within chess.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've strangely misspelled holy hell

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, can someone catch me up on the holy hell thing?

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 1 points 1 year ago

En passant has always been the most obscure chess rule, in online chess it's often reported as cheating. Which resulted in a lot of people saying "google en passant", on an unkown lemmy clone someone realising it's an actual chess move replied, holy hell, and a meme was born.