Chess
I like Kentucky Gentleman-style chess. There does need to be a piece that can move in a figure 8. Imagine the possibilities!
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I always liked Tripp’s inner voice. In a world like this you need someone that cool and calm.
Someone who also cheats at chess.
Behold, I introduce you all to… fairy chess.
Yep, figure-eights are allowed… if you provide the rule for it. ^.^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant
Haha! Whoa! Somehow, I don’t see Tripp accusing the Kentucky Gentlemen of playing ‘fairy chess’ anytime soon.
Ooh, this is that kind of chess.
-spontaneous shotgun-
Pawn moves forward.
Shotgun chess!
So much better than shotgun weddings.
Haha, definitely!
Depends on what the shotgun’s used for. If it’s skeet shooting I say it’s fine.
As long as it’s not the father of the bride aiming it at the groom, it should be ok.
Oh THAT is why they had the groom all made up in a terracotta tuxedo!
When my brother introduced me to chess, he said that the queen could move in any direction. I took all 8 directions at once (a circle) to capture his piece before he explained only one of those directions at a time. ^_~ Far as I knew it was legal. ROFL
The queen has far too much power already!
I hear the queen is getting nerfed in the next chess patch.
Extra points for using ‘nerfed.’
Wait…..If you moved a chess piece in a figure 8 it would land in it’s original position.
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
■ ■ ■ 5 ■ ■ ■ ■
■ ■ 4 ■ 6 ■ ■ ■
■ ■ ■ 3 ■ ■ ■ ■
■ ■ 8 ■ 2 ■ ■
■ ■ ■ 1 ■ ■ ■ ■
1 would be the start and finish, unless 8 is in which it might as well me a bishop.
Haha, love the diagram. Assuming it’s a ‘perfect’ on-the-board figure 8, you’re right.
So… the gentleman didn’t cheat. He simply surveyed his options while moving the queen in a figure eight!
He never took his hand off the piece, right?
Ah the calssic double back fgure eight for checkmate manuvre it has severed me well in many gomes of chess that were to the death
You play chess to the death?!