mixed_biscuits

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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]
Let me guess, is your favourite the white knight?
 

mixed_biscuits

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The pawn's promotion to Queen prefigures the transformation of modern day progressive drones to glorious trans womanhood. Does chess imitate life or vice versa? Most definitely.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
The pawn's promotion to Queen prefigures the transformation of modern day progressive drones to glorious trans womanhood. Does chess imitate life or vice versa? Most definitely.
Your sexism is showing in your assumption that the pawn cannot already be female. This is in fact a real possibility in the IDF, the most progressive and moral military force that has ever existed or theoretically ever could exist, as you should know.
 

GhostofKinski

Well-known member
Your sexism is showing in your assumption that the pawn cannot already be female. This is in fact a real possibility in the IDF, the most progressive and moral military force that has ever existed or theoretically ever could exist, as you should know.
I knew a senior enlisted man once. I wrote a bit about him in one of my first posts. One combat tour in Korea, Two in Vietnam, one of which was as an advisor with the Montegyards •sp an indigenous tribe , during the Phoenix program. His opinion (strongly held) was that females made excellent soldiers. He said Men are impulsive, Women are intuitive. “Let me train a company of women & I’ll conquer Hell” direct quote.
 
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