I think the reason I lost interest in chess was because after playing it a million times somebody pointed out that the point isn't to ASSASSINATE the enemy king, you have to entrap him, and I was like this game sucks I just want to shoot him with a cannon
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I mean, you don't play the part where you actually knock him off the board both because there's no point, and because when chess evolved into a rote enough game that "You must move out of check" became an actual rule then it's a logical paradox
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I don't want to be that person, but something something stalemate
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Replying to @life_minutiae @Nymphomachy
Oh no are we going to restart the "Why is stalemate a draw?!" discourse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I mean, if we're doing that ... uh, your move
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