Chess

[Corpsey]

Playing people online is so infuriating when you've been learning against the bot. The bot is always rational (even it's mistakes are rational). Human opponents (at least at my worm level) immediately bring the queen out and start drunken mastering me to death.

 

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Do you get abusive messages like on FIFA?

 

[GhostofKinski]

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My dream set. Love the berserker biting his shield

Playing people online is so infuriating when you've been learning against the bot. The bot is always rational (even its mistakes are rational). Human opponents (at least at my worm level) immediately bring the queen out and start drunken mastering me to death.

i think that kind of playing is good practice.
Deploying the queen in the development stage, once learned to negate (like the scholars mate) is a huge step. I think you will find it’s going to get easier and easier to just trap the queen by not panicking & continually
Developing. When done thoughtfully your opponent can put you five moves ahead by just threatening/chasing the queen around.

I used to play with this kid who beat me like five times straight. I noticed he relied heavily on his knights. Just for the he’ll of it I tried just exchanging my bishops for his knights.
He never beat me again afterward.

 

[Corpsey]

I was playing for an hour or so earlier kept fucking up cos I was half concentrating (that's my excuse anyway). I stopped after I stalemated a guy I was 26 points up on.

 

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Magnes Carlson has corpsey physiognomy

 

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[GhostofKinski]

I was playing for an hour or so earlier kept fucking up cos I was half concentrating (that's my excuse anyway). I stopped after I stalemated a guy I was 26 points up on.

I feel that. It’s worse than losing to me.

 

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I expected Carlsen to be a manosphere guy, getting in trouble for following Jordan Peterson on Facebook and the like

 

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Corpsey furious at a photo of a pregnant woman.

 

[Corpsey]

I expected Carlsen to be a manosphere guy, getting in trouble for following Jordan Peterson on Facebook and the like

 

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Corpseyface.

 

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[mixed_biscuits]

Game-playing feeds into the gameplaying manospherical social climbing and pick-up artists; being competitive about a game also gives a stamp of approval to Jordan Peterson's generalisations on human society, and zero sum games are hierarchical and a training ground for a hard right outlook.

 

[luka]

Game-playing feeds into the gameplaying manospherical social climbing and pick-up artists; being competitive about a game also gives a stamp of approval to Jordan Peterson's generalisations on human society, and zero sum games are hierarchical and a training ground for a hard right outlook.

Biscuits claims 'i was radicalised by table football'

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I'm also not comfortable with the patriarchal command structure. Pretending that the queen's "power" provides some sort of gender balance is disingenuous, for how is this "power" demonstrated other than in having to do the most work.

 

[luka]

I'm also not comfortable with the patriarchal command structure. Pretending that the queen's "power" provides some sort of gender balance is disingenuous, for how is this "power" demonstrated other than in having to do the most work.

This is why sufi says he 'admires' biscuit

 

[Corpsey]

Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes several factors that might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its power in modern chess: the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche of Castile, and more particularly Isabella I of Castile; the cult of the Virgin Mary;[4] the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love; and the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.[9] She points to medieval poetry depicting the Virgin as the chess-queen of God or Fierce Dieu.[10]

 

[Murphy]

Chess as fertility rite

 

[Murphy]

It’s ok I don’t mind joining the dots, someone has to do it

 

[GhostofKinski]

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Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes several factors that might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its power in modern chess: the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche of Castile, and more particularly Isabella I of Castile; the cult of the Virgin Mary;[4] the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love; and the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.[9] She points to medieval poetry depicting the Virgin as the chess-queen of God or Fierce Dieu.[10]

In the U.S. Army the infantry, including Airborne/Rangers are known as the Queen of Battle. Artillery is the King. I always kind of figured that was a chess analogy from Napoleonic times.
The game is of course much older.
Napoleon started and was renowned as a master of using Artillery.