Today, Welsknight is playing chess!
Image by me!
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i’ve yet to find a traditional uranium glass chess set, only one made from uranium salt shakers. there are lots of sets with regular schmegular glow in the dark pieces, but we can fantasize.
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new york city
summer 1978
street chess, west 42nd street
photograph by nick dewolf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/50559214387
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people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny
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Lackadaisy Stratagem (Animated Short)
Just Mordecai and Viktor having a normal one.
Watch the full short here on YouTube!
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Clips here feature the animation and cleanup work of Sam Kessler (ENDO), Keaton Sapp, Julia Schoel, Carolina Senra, BMBrice, and Sam Staehler, with compositing by Matt Pichette!
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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
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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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new rules for chess:
1. Friendly Fire ON
2. Landmines
3. If a player loses both of their bishops, the king can now legally divorce the queen without the papal go ahead. This puts the queen into FRENZY mode.
4. Once per game, a player may change one letter in a piece's name to change its role. The rook is now a book. The pawn is now a PAWG. The queen is now...well...I shan't say
5. Knights are now Horses
6. Horses are immune to landmines
7. Pawns can move back a space if they forgot something
8. A bishop can be combined with an adjacent rook to create the Wizard Tower piece
9. Each player now has 2 rows of pawns
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FAUM’s Candle Chess Set Takes the Classic Game to a Fiery New Level
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“Albina Ysmailova lightens up any chess tournament with her presence. This passionate player has a chess-themed prosthetic hand that she made herself.”
Photographed by David Llada.
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Part of the reason that Chess is so frequently played in Star Trek is because Leonard Nimoy is an avid chess enthusiast and asked the writers to work it into stories whenever possible.
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