• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    8 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

        • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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          1 month 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