#chess

[samicarabarbaru2137]

I guess we are not all cut out for it

Part 1/2

THIS HAS TO BE MY FAV ARTWORK SO FAR! I hope you guys like it as well... part 2 has much more ragatha don't worry ;) @justtheclippy ;)

[diaryofanauthor]

All images from Unsplash (Alexandru Acea, Mathias Reding, Dana Ward, Ahmad Matar, Sombre, Zhenyu Luo)

[thefigureresource]

Alice has been delayed to March 2025.

Alice Liddell : Yume iri no Jikan [original illustration by STAR Kageboushi] 1/7 scale from APEX coming January 2025.

[bodhrancomedy]

Sometimes having a reputation for being smart beats actually being smart.

I once beat my school’s chess champion in a game because he spent the entire match desperately trying to work out my strategy because I was “smart” and therefore good at chess.

We were playing with a Lord of the Rings chess set. I was moving the characters I liked best.

I’m terrible at chess.

[triviallytrue]

people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

[gcu-sovereign]

Very importantly, you don't need to have the master title to have such a crushing advantage against a lolrandom spewing noob.

A FIDE master is rated at least 2300, but even a player as low as 700 will have their heart soar at the prospect of instant victory from the lolrandom white player opening with 1. f3

most bizarre misconception i keep seeing about chess online is "you can beat a really good player like a grandmaster just by playing random moves and confusing them so they don't know what to play next". bestie that is not how it works at all. if your moves don't do anything they will just do their own thing and set up their pieces to trap you

[motorizedduck]

Just today I got to see a chess book that I remember reading as a little kid. While it didn't give me a lifelong passion for chess, it did give me a lifelong passion for fantasy for its artwork.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

This artwork is amazing, evocative, exciting and dramatic. I recommend giving it a look if you have a chance - you can probably scrounge up a PDF of this thing with a bit of searching.

[taxus-fraud]

Hey guys, my opponent just fused their entire side of the board into a gestalt entity, which is currently dissecting and calcifying my pieces such that they fit into its twisted vision of an eternal, perfect state of the universe. What's the best counter in this situation?

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

black queen, white knight

[divorcedwife]

chess inspired fashion

[dozydawn]

muhammad fatchurofi

[cheekypockets]

Kinger from The Amazing Digital Circus!!

He's finally complete and super adorable!! I just had to make him after that last episode. He's been done for a while but I've been too busy to take pictures.

[seven-oh-four]

I'm still pretty new to chess, can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do if my opponent plays the Eight Fucking Bears opening? I'm really having trouble.

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