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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 15

      Drifting off to sleep idea: chess w light speed communication lag. Your king commands actions, but your king views the board as news of events propagate at 1 square per turn.

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    2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie Feb 15
      Replying to @MorlockP

      First obstacle - resolving illegal moves. King orders pawn to move forward one but doesn't yet know that the square in front of it is occupied. Or contrariwise king orders pawn to attack (diagonally) but doesn't yet know that the piece that was there moved away last turn.

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie Feb 15
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      The king orders bishops, rooks, and queens to move to a distant square but doesn't know there's an intervening piece. The piece is presumably captured and the captor's move is halted there, but the king doesn't know it yet?

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    4. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie Feb 15
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      The king moves through or into check but doesn't know he's in check, and neither does the enemy king? So maybe it's legal? And the game ends not with checkmate but with king capture? Which the victor won't know about until he's told that he's won?

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    5. 𝑁𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑜‏ @NasicaSerapio Feb 16
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      Yeah, king capture should be the win condition.

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    6. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie Feb 16
      Replying to @NasicaSerapio @MorlockP

      I think the endgame looks like your pieces wildly stabbing at the enemy king in the near-dark hoping to get a lucky strike before the enemy king murders them King vs. Any Other Piece is a slaughter The king can see where they are when they're next to him, but they're blind

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    7. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie Feb 16
      Replying to @random_eddie @NasicaSerapio @MorlockP

      I suspect the game as proposed so far is unplayably random, with pieces fumbling around in the dark waving knives at each other, and the players not even knowing if any of them hit or missed until it's long past mattering.

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    8. 𝑁𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑜‏ @NasicaSerapio Feb 16
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      A great analogy for interstellar warfare, lol

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie Feb 16
      Replying to @NasicaSerapio @MorlockP

      scary but true

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. 𝑁𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑜‏ @NasicaSerapio Feb 16
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      So far as I understand the conceit, at time N, the king see the board as it was at time N-x, where x is the number denoting distance. So if a player sent their queen across the board, they would see it vanish the next turn, while the other player would see it suddenly appear.pic.twitter.com/1raLQXbAHE

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Feb 17
      Replying to @NasicaSerapio @random_eddie

      Yes

      4:30 AM - 17 Feb 2022
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