#chess posting

[anatolysyoghurt]

Ladies, one at a time, you can’t all hear my essay about chess the musical at the same time

[flyingbeyondthehorizon]

Happy International Chess Day 🤍♟

[slur-sayer]

[rocksthosesocks]

Game 3

Won with the white pieces

Sicilian defense: canal attack

I… I played really goofy honestly. I violated a lot of opening principles and my opponent had a lot of initiative but also a lot of weaknesses. I ended up being able to blockade the weakened pawns, win a pawn, and win the game. God it took such a long time though.

[bookish-bi-mormon]

When they first performed Chess in America they changed the whole plot and made Freddie the winner!?!?!?!?!?!!???!???

[vibratingchinchilla]

I get my wisdom teeth removed and look at what happens to my ELO

what a fucking scam

[divorcedwife]

chess inspired fashion

[offonaherosjourney]

Last night I dreamed that someone invented a new version of chess called Rookmeo and Juliet where two rooks are in love and trying to run away together. To achieve this they have to make it to the other side of the board, but these rooks don't have any visible signs to differenciate them from the rest, just a small mark in their base. Neither of the players knows what rook from the other side is in love with their rook, so they have to play a regular game of chess, fully aware that they might unknowingly kill the lover of their rook. If they kill it, the game keeps going, but their rook betrays them, switches sides and turns into a second queen for the other player. People wrote a ton of essays about the symbolism and metaphors of that version of chess and the creator didn't have the heart to tell them that he simply invented it because he thought Rookmeo was a great pun

[strawberry-crocodile]

Sometimes people get their start in fandom with something like, idk, the MCU or light action shows like Supernatural or children's fantasy like Warriors (this last example said with love), where the writing is an inconsistent mess, characterization can change on a dime, there's no themes stronger than like "family" or "stop the bad guy from changing our way of life". And their fandom experience is taking the hints of interesting ideas presented and dropped and spinning them into something interesting, or just fluffy and fun, and then discarding the rest.

And then these people come to a piece of art that like. Actually has themes and good writing and a coherent vision, but they're still trained on The Giant Trash Heap That Must Be Sorted Through, so they start their routine of excising fun yaoi moments and throwing the rest in the trash, except now the rest is like. A professionally made passion project by a group of skilled writers with a hundred years writing experience between them, and this fan is writing the same coffee shop AUs as ever. And it makes something that feels same-y and fandom out of something unique and well-made and, well, interesting.

And like. That's their prerogative, more power to them, but it makes me wanna pull my hair out to talk to these people about a piece of media I actually care about beyond that Trash Heap level.

And if you're someone whose only fandom experience has been Trash Sorting and you're running into people arguing with you abt their favorite piece of media, give them a second thought I guess?

[impartialbias]

Finally found someone who can beat me at chess! I’ve never had such a fun game before and I think I’m in love!

[anatolysyoghurt]

Me whenever I see a chess board or anything that is remotely black and white: omg is this a chess the musical reference

[model-theory]

FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT HITBOXES THAT'S BULLSHIT CHESS YOU CAN'T TELL ME I GOT HIT THERE THIS LATENCY CRAP IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR

[slur-sayer]

[armored-core6]

I fucking hate sicilian defence

[rocksthosesocks]

Second round

QGD with the Black pieces

Lost

I had let myself get multiple weaknesses out of the opening. I kept the game going for a very long time by playing for complications, and I think I had a drawable position at a point, but I didn’t play it correctly.