• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    What were the queens moves prior to this. And what did a pawn become when it reached the other side.

    I remember people always saying you could choose what piece you wanted. Though everyone most always chose queen of course. Though I could see someone choosing knight in certain circumstances.

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      9 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#History

      A pawn originally did not have the option of moving two squares on its first move, and promoted only to a queen upon reaching the eighth rank. The queen was originally the fers or farzin, which could move one square diagonally in any direction.

      In the Persian and Arabic game the bishop was a pīl (Persian) or fīl (Arabic) (meaning “elephant”) which moved two squares diagonally with jump

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            2 months ago

            yooo “someone from blahaj zone” yorumunu az önce okudum fediverse cidden küçük bir yer

            luv this place <3

            Hope we get to see r/turkaaa move here. Turkish Reddit has truly became a lot more fascist in the last few years