I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions

Post by da_chicken » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:04 PM UTC

catapart wrote: post #8

That is very clever! But I hate the way the pawns face. Makes sense! But it still reads, to me, like one of those "color, but the text is in a different color" things. Feels like the pawns should be facing the opposite direction. =/

Post by mattigames » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:07 PM UTC

Post by angry_moose » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:07 PM UTC

PopAlongKid wrote: post #21

I still have a set which was sold as "Visual Chess", and you can still find it on eBay for example. The pieces were mostly like traditional design (but kind of "modernized" in 1960s style) but when viewed from the top (i.e. as you play), there was an indication of the allowed move. You can see some examples in the image link below. Even the pawns had a nice design which clearly indicated that movement of one square f…

Post by loceng » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:22 PM UTC

brk wrote: post #44

tdiff wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those peaces remain unreasonably expensive on Amazon, btw.

Peace has always come at a high cost. But if it's available on Amazon that still seems like progress.

Post by 2024throwaway » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:25 PM UTC

nick_g wrote: post #40

2024throwaway wrote: post #28

Off topic, but does anyone know a browser extension that lets you block certain domains from the HN list? I've blocked twitter/x from my DNS, and don't want links to it cluttering the feed.

I'm not aware of one, but if you can insert custom css rules it should be simple with something like tbody tr.athing:has(.title .titleline a[href*="twitter.com"]), tbody tr.athing:has(.title .titleline a[href*="twitter.com"]) + tr, tbody tr.athing:has(.title .titleline a[href\*="twitter.com"]) + tr + tr { display: none; } This selects for any `tr` which has an anchor to a url with twitter.com somewhere in it (with so…