Nice :-) I might make the King round though. Set it apart more.
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
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Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#82Learning all the possible moves and attacks in chess is the least difficult part of learning chess.
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#83I think this is fun, but (a) knights' threats are disconnected and this "flower" approach while good is maybe not ideal. You might as well use a hollow circle at that point. (b) when we say "chess pieces can be redesigned to be..." then I think about actual physical pieces, it would not do to make these as actual physical pieces because an accidental misplacement turns a rook into a bishop or vice versa. Gotta make t…
Unrelated, but I just realized the horse is not in fact called "horse" like it is in Italian/Spanish.
Or Dutch
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#84I think this is fun, but (a) knights' threats are disconnected and this "flower" approach while good is maybe not ideal. You might as well use a hollow circle at that point. (b) when we say "chess pieces can be redesigned to be..." then I think about actual physical pieces, it would not do to make these as actual physical pieces because an accidental misplacement turns a rook into a bishop or vice versa. Gotta make t…
Unrelated, but I just realized the horse is not in fact called "horse" like it is in Italian/Spanish.
When I was younger, I always believed that the proper name was for the knight was "horse" (my primary language is English). I only figured it out when I was playing chess against my friend, and he was like, "horse? wth is that"
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#85For me the most surprising observation from this thread is this tweet [1] showing that the knight's moves are exactly the squares that the queen can't get to within a 2 square manhattan distance. I.e. the knight is an anti-queen. [1]: https://twitter.com/skidbladnirr_/status/1750285122769957129
Some non-orthodox chess variants have a piece which combines Queen+Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(chess) very old variants often had such compound pieces like for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Acedrex
There's also the knook that combines the Knight and the Rook, which was hilariously invented as a meme on /r/anarchychess: https://anarchychess.fandom.com/wiki/Knook
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#86I 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…
Art Deco chess pieces :o
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#87I think this is fun, but (a) knights' threats are disconnected and this "flower" approach while good is maybe not ideal. You might as well use a hollow circle at that point. (b) when we say "chess pieces can be redesigned to be..." then I think about actual physical pieces, it would not do to make these as actual physical pieces because an accidental misplacement turns a rook into a bishop or vice versa. Gotta make t…
Unrelated, but I just realized the horse is not in fact called "horse" like it is in Italian/Spanish.
It's been weird/amusing observing how different age groups at my local chess clubs call pieces and concepts. The older group very much stays to the local Dutch terminology for both while the younger group (presumably influenced by youtube) tends to mix Dutch piece names with English concepts. So you can have a koning (king) that is being "skewered" by a koningin (Queen) on the tweede (second) rank.
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#88That 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. =/
It's attack direction not movement direction. Pawns are the one piece where there is a difference and I'm not sure which is better ;-)
Catapart is aware, they're just saying it's unfortunate how it ends up looking.
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#89For me the most surprising observation from this thread is this tweet [1] showing that the knight's moves are exactly the squares that the queen can't get to within a 2 square manhattan distance. I.e. the knight is an anti-queen. [1]: https://twitter.com/skidbladnirr_/status/1750285122769957129
I thought that was the main deal about knights...
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#90I suspect Josef Hartwig would like a word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hartwig#Chess_sets https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus-Schachspiel
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