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I haven't looked at everything, but it does look like this 'works'. For instance the knights all are unable to capture any piece of a different color via wall thickness and can't move 'out' of their pens because the corridors out are too narrow for L-shaped movement. Bishops can't hit anything

Also if you only allow one of each bishop to reach the shared space you can prevent capture

You could also have 2 Knights of the same color there and they could get past each other by both going to the wall.

I love how only the bishops can interact without capturing each other

do the poor pawns get stuck against one side and have to be moved back? or do they become new pieces and have to be relocated to other enclosures?

NetHack (1987)

youtu.be/5cD-b9c1QR4?...

We are used to see these pieces in the wild. Enclosured like this: how long until they turn into each other? 😂

How have I not seen any non-chess indie games play with this movement style for players/enemy's.

I see you included a Rookery!

Wow looks wild.

I’m too stupid for this

Wow.

Maaan I know when somebody is trying to hypnotize me. 😶🙄

TIL elephants are rooks in some countries and bishops in some. Never heard of camels before.

They can jump over the wall.

In chess, a Knight's movement is not impeded by a piece sitting on the 90° angle of their move. It simply moves to a square 1 away in one direction and 2 away in two directions. So can you explain what is "wrong"?

The global bitmap must have a meaning. Or change it such that it has a meaning. QR code?

Bovvrel

that one anarchy chess subreddit is gonna have a field day with that one

Or a stereogram oh wait it is

I suppose this is satire with a moral...

The alt text (in the original comic) is brilliant.

SECRET COLLECT

The bishop encounters are my favorite part of this, tbh

Covemount war flashbacks

No face-to-face pawn structures? You could fit some fun formations with those

Why is this cute?

Love this

So i guess brooks queens and bishops somehow are magically stopped at the blocker block? I’m confused

god you're weird

It appears to be hardest to capture white pawns. I wonder how the stats of pieces captured relate to actual material caught in chess matches

jesus, how long did this take you to plan out?

That must have been a bit of work! Nice!

The confinement of some of the knights seems a little inhumane.

biong

imagining AZA having to certify these exhibits and smiling serenely

Obstacles, lanes, NPCs would really shake things up.

We do, see 3D chess as an example

"Are you implying that chess pieces will... learn new moves?" "No, I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way."

I think I might make a poster out of this for my wall! Bravo!

Wait, that central bishop enclosure is op- o no it isn't. (Although zoo fences are just as much to keep visitors out, of course.)

How long did this take to make

Leaving the bishop enclosure open is extremely irresponsible! Yes, they cant get out, but people could get in, and then be open to capture!!

My head hurts just reading that!

When are you going to turn this into a dwarf fortress graphics pack?

Please let's have a #MAGA-Zoo ¹. Then watch them all throw poo at each other all day long! ¹ Say the word MAGA-Zoo in the style of the song, that will be your worm-tune (fear not, for this worm wont make you #wormshitcrazy) for the day, Xanadu.

How could you make such a brilliant and niche thing (again)?

The knights are really powerful in such a set up

Okay Randall, this is brilliant but I think you’ve finally lost it

Door of the Year Award to the Bishop’s Enclosure! Genius.

More like maze runner

My first thought was "When did they add chess pieces to Deadly Rooms Of Death"?

there's a browser game called knight-errant that's pretty close to that

If you’re thinking in the cloud, everyone can see it. FYI

Omg this actually sounds incredible—castles would be scouts and you can scout slowly or take a risk and move them into unknown fog of war territory to scout farther

Who else is remembering ZZT right now? (Pardon me while I cough up dust and cobwebs that used to be my lungs ..)

yea!!! I am so glad you are here!!!!!

Zoomed out, it looks like a PNG transparency lol

The enclosures for the knights are far too small. They need at least a 9x9 to meet their enrichment needs.

Squid Game

Xkcd is on Bluesky! Now we're talking

I though you had managed to combine chess with minesweeper lol

Consequently it's considered a dead position, resulting in the game immediately ending in a draw.

ik heb nu ook maar een oproepje op mijn FB pagina gezet... Ik ken nu alleen jou hier 🤣

That lone white knight must be a fierce one.

must be a QR code? (or should be redrawn such that there is a QR code)

😭😭😭😭😭 maybe

I feel like there should really be a small enclosure with two opposite color pawns right in front of each other.

Thank you for giving my children something to do for the next several hours.

Yes, but bishops can't capture humans because humans aren't chess pieces

That section is a petting zoo

Can children move diagonally or only laterally in this world though lol

Think of the bishops as a butterfly garden or something I guess.

Finally my day for PFP glory!

I love that there's just a gap in one of the bishop enclosures but they can't get out because they'd get stuck in the first square 😂

Talk about a mind fuck.

Randall... Randall. When was the last time you were laid? srsly

Something about this brings a smile to my face 😂

I FREAKIN ♥️♥️♥️ THIS

They don't sustain themselves by eating, they die* * singular chess.stackexchange.com/questions/19...

I thought surely the knights could capture but each is locked tight in their little cells any exit to their section blocks them by having a straight line as the only exit

A tad more humane🤷🏼‍♀️

Is this loss

waiting for someone like gothamchess to post the only possible capture

Oh my God I've been trying to figure out what this game was called FOR YEARS! Thank you

That's what that twinge of anxiety was

The enclosures are structured such that the knights can only escape into areas with pieces of their own colour, and all the exterior walls are inescapable

oh no it’s another advent of code puzzle

This is Cow Tools

Rotate it to the right and you have a space invader.

lol thx

No there aren't. They can move from pen to pen, but they can never fully escape the zoo, OR get into position to capture opposing pieces.

Why is this so cute

the pawns are still two moves away from capture and that's just too real