this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Gotta give it to the trebuchet man, to nail a king in his throne with a horse from that far away, that is math as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

"now a little to the left aaaaand..." YEET

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That piece is called a knight, so there should be a rider getting tossed over there with the horse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe that little black smudge is the rider who bravely volunteered to go first and test the trajectory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Impressively fast reload!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@samus12345 well, no, that's a common misconception. The technical term is Horsie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Google en passant.

En passant is a French term meaning “by peasant” and it dates to the French Revolution. It means that pawns can capture sideways if they really want to. It’s because they normally capture at an angle of 45 degrees, but if they move to the front of the horizontal square it’s really only a matter of being like 60 degrees or so, depending on where they were on the originating square.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

En passant is a French term meaning “by peasant”

No, it means "in passing." "Par un paysan" would be French for "by peasant."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Poe's law applies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

En passant is French for in passing.

The French word for peasant is paysan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fetchez la vache!

[–] LanMandragondeez 3 points 1 year ago