I mean chess is not not popular by any stretch of the mind, a lot of people around the world are playing it every single day and that won’t go away anytime soon, but I’m always surprised to see so much more excitement going on around a new version of This or That video game that people will play for a little while before switching to a newer version than for chess. Despite its apparent simplicity (and lack of visual effects), chess has remained a challenge for the smartest among us, and will keep on being so no matter how much better computers can be playing it.
Would chess count?
I mean chess is not not popular by any stretch of the mind, a lot of people around the world are playing it every single day and that won’t go away anytime soon, but I’m always surprised to see so much more excitement going on around a new version of This or That video game that people will play for a little while before switching to a newer version than for chess. Despite its apparent simplicity (and lack of visual effects), chess has remained a challenge for the smartest among us, and will keep on being so no matter how much better computers can be playing it.
Yeah but it doesn’t have tech trees or fog of war
tech tree:
pawn -> queen
pawn -> rook
pawn -> knight
pawn -> bishop
Someone should inform the devs there is no reason to pick anything but queen and knight.
google en passant
I mean when promoting.
Yeah, ‘google en passant’ is an r/AnarchyChess joke.
Unless you are in on it, in which case damn, you’re stone cold.
In theory, you can always promote to a rook just to show off. I have no idea if it’s considered a bad mannered move.
Ah I see. Thanks for explaining. I wasn’t in on it heh.