Okay so first off all, "elegance" and "simplicity" being a good thing and "arbitrary" rules being a bad thing is really a personal aesthetic preference, nothing more But chess is EXTREMELY arbitrary and not at all elegant Go fans talk shit about chess for this constantlyhttps://twitter.com/safeforspamnow/status/1360094897630543872 …
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Too bad the Russian variant where Queens could also move like Knights never caught on.
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There was even Discourse *at the time* about whether giving the queen superpowers to make the game more fun was a proto-feminist statement that would give ordinary women ideas (Chaucer jokes about it IIRC)
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