The amount of salt that would be thrown in the next game rule update for chess would be incredible.
can you imagine if FIDE went, "you know what, classical is now 960. There's no going back, that's the rule now"

They used to call the current version of chess "mad queens' chess"

During the 15th century, the queen's move took its modern form as a combination of the move of the rook and the current move of the bishop.[14] Starting from Spain, this new version – called "queen's chess" (in Italian, scacchi della donna) or, pejoratively, "madwoman's chess" (scacchi alla rabiosa) – spread throughout Europe rapidly, partly due to the advent of the printing press and the popularity of new books on chess.[15] The new rules faced a backlash in some quarters, ranging from anxiety over a powerful female warrior figure to frank abuse against women in general.[16]

Gamers being butthurt about patches? Never!

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lmaoo, even ancient gamers were complaining about women in games

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

15th century is not ancient brah....

Although I'm sure people playing Ur were still mad.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

No I know, I just typed quickly and recklessly

Just pretend that the "ancient" in my comment meant like, "gamers 500 years in the past" or something

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What were the queens moves prior to this. And what did a pawn become when it reached the other side.

I remember people always saying you could choose what piece you wanted. Though everyone most always chose queen of course. Though I could see someone choosing knight in certain circumstances.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Knight is rarely a better choice indeed, and it might even be optimal to choose a rook or bishop in extraordinary circumstances, such as if choosing a queen leads to a draw

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#History

A pawn originally did not have the option of moving two squares on its first move, and promoted only to a queen upon reaching the eighth rank. The queen was originally the fers or farzin, which could move one square diagonally in any direction.

In the Persian and Arabic game the bishop was a pīl (Persian) or fīl (Arabic) (meaning "elephant") which moved two squares diagonally with jump

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your quote never calls it mad queen, just queen or madwoman!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I misremembered
I'm sure other sources have variants
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