this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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[–] dadGPT@lemmy.world 124 points 7 months ago

i couldnt excel in chess, so decided to chess in excel

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 80 points 7 months ago

I promote my pawn to pivot table

[–] Lxrduy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 7 months ago (6 children)

How do you differentiate black and white pieces? Maybe half the pieces should have white text instead

[–] runjun@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago (1 children)

♔♚ ♕♛ ♖♜ ♗♝ ♘♞ ♙♟︎

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago

Was thinking the same, use unicode or emojis for chess pieces.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it definitely needs to be color coded.

The other thing that would bother me is that if you're playing black, you have to play upside down. I wonder if there would be a way to "flip the board".

[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Probably could make a board on another sheet with a formula that points to the opposite side of the board

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a nightmare of VBA code. I love it!

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can think of 1½ ways to do that that wouldn't involve VBA.

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol. Fair enough. I'm not sure which would be worse.

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the spirit of anarchy chess, I MAY need to find out. For science.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Did you find out?

Otherwise I may

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

I think sheets will let you flip the text completely. Although then issues with using mouse when looking at it from that side

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 22 points 7 months ago

Definitely. White background too. Chess Team Six ready for check.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

And they definitely need to make the spaces squares.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

CAPS vs lowercase

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago

Is there a variant of chess where you use the same color? Like blind chess but you're only color blind.

[–] Terminus@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Why does black get to go first? 1. E5? (good meme though)

[–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 20 points 7 months ago

white actually went first but they played the swedish samba (Kf3, Kg1)

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 22 points 7 months ago

Finally I can do something useful through SharePoint

[–] Verito@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll raise you rnbqkbnr/ppppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/pppp1ppp/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2. Come at me bro.

[–] Olmai@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know the format but shouldn't it be rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2 to remove the pawn ambiguity ?

[–] Verito@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Aw fu, I mean..You see through my plan THIS time... Erm.. yeah.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Source code?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

Give it FICS integration

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can be the first human to do en passant on that platform

[–] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Even better, you could write a macro so en passant would be forced

[–] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just make sure when pieces get taken you drag them under the board instead of deleting them. Otherwise what will you do when you need to promote a pawn?

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

There'd be no coming back!