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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Never mind obvious kludges like the en passant rule Basic stuff like how the pieces move and the order they're arranged in and stuff is clearly just made up and not made up for any particularly good reason
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Like hell the time honored concept of "castling" is a kludge put into the game because the rooks starting out where they are is very annoying and frustrating but putting them somewhere else from the beginning was deemed OP
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Yes, chess as we play it now started as a "wacky chess variant" explicitly intended to "shake things up and get the game moving faster" It was called "Mad Queen Chess"
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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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