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As someone who has played a lot of chess I don't find this useful. I'm surprised how many people have positive responses to this.
As someone who has played a lot of chess I don't find this useful. I'm surprised how many people have positive responses to this.
Consider for a moment the billions of people who have not played a lot of chess. Seems like a cool teaching aid for youngsters especially.
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Wouldn’t it look like four capital tees joined at opposites/right angles at the stem?
I mean, sorta? If you think about it as the "rules of the move," but the actual movement can be drawn as a straight line. See: https://twitter.com/graycrawford/status/1750248031784763639
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Consider for a moment the billions of people who have not played a lot of chess. Seems like a cool teaching aid for youngsters especially.
Does it take anyone longer than a game or two to remember the rules of chess? I even taught chess to adults as a child and they caught on within a few moves. Which I guess explains why it remains more popular than FOTM overcomplicated board game #5000. It's not difficult to memorize. IMO this is a solution to a nonexistent problem.
For 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
"the knight may move to any nearest cell not on an orthogonal or diagonal line on which it stands"
I 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…
A swastika shape would make sense for the knight. I guess there is still a cultural aversion to its use, however.
The pieces resemble the movements in most cases, but also pack together into a rectangle.
I prefer this: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/4746 The pieces resemble the movements in most cases, but also pack together into a rectangle.
I don't see it. Do they really?