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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In elementary school the other kids thought I was cheating when I tried to castle. They didn't believe me that it was an actual rule.
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I also kept trying to do en passant but could never remember which row you have to be on.
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En passant is just a rules patch they put in to rebalance the game after they put in the rules patch of letting pawns "jump ahead" two squares on their first move (Almost all of these rule changes are to "speed up" the game because chess used to be pretty boring and slow)
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My whole thing is this stuff is older than people think Games are supposed to be fun and the most common reason for a game's rules to be tweaked is people finding the current game boring Much as this reasoning tends to enrage conservative purists
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Castling is like the designated hitter rule, letting pawns race ahead faster was like lowering the pitcher's mound
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