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it also means you're still in the game rn

Today’s episode of XKCD brought to you by M. John Harrison.

"The Player of Games" by Banks vibes.

There really is an xkcd for everything.

... wait was it @ladyemily.nebula.tv or @sarahz.bsky.social who posted a lot about chess? Well, clearly you've already been tagged in this like five thousand times already

I will try to pull this one on people tomorrow at my chess club. If they are playing alpha move though it will be a struggle.

ah yes, the common British cock and ball Scandinavian defence, wet rag variation. you have fallen into my trap, and you will be checkmated in 30 moves....

The best description I’ve seen of the papa ticula gambit

ha ha ha ha

@rhenderson.net

I wish I could show this to my mom. She was a serious chess player and did get into something like a trance sometimes in a really challenging game...

<3

Don't play chess when you're high

I’m strangely disgusted and obsessed with all the nuance it took to get this so perfectly unhinged.

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That's horrible! Horrible! (I can't stop laughing.)

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85%? that's amazing! i had no idea

kind of like how monopoly is supposed to show how bad monopolies are and we've missed the point? i feel like chess is supposed to show how war is bad and we've missed the point

that's so cool!

@kevinlincoln.bsky.social

I blundered my way out of it once, when I was young and foolish. I'm old and foolish now.

Not true, in fact there are more possible chess games than atoms in the known universe

Reminds me of a line where the player played a chess game with moves that were so alien, a woman gave birth, even though she had not been pregnant at the time.

this is literally what it feels like being bad at chess

From "MASH" after Hawkeye makes a move playing chess with Winchester: Charles: Ah, the infamous Yankakovich gambit! Hawkeye: Oh yeah? Charles: Yankakovich perfected the strategy of making the most moronic move possible, in order to lull his opponent. We-e-ell, I’m not gonna fall for it.

Nh3 Dream Emulator Anyways, Day 19 of factoring xkcd comics: 3082 is 2×23×67

She didn't listen to him, he said all he wanted to do was get back there, given the current state of things, I didn't blame him at all

Player of Games by Ian M. Banks

I’m asking for anyone to share this link hoping it reaches people that can help gofund.me/2dd3c67b

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can this be blocked with the g or e pawn though?

Let's transmogrify chess into an Infinite ♾️ Game!

Chess SUPERposition, eh, eh… *tap, tap* Is this thing on?

I think this explains why Kirk always beat Spock at 3D chess.

@garrykasparov.bsky.social

Why on earth would you want to block it?

Ladysplainin'

Sounds like two deep space probes talking to each other @jonbois.bsky.social

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!…

there's actual alt text, but the true alt text is "chess at 700 Elo explained"

This is why I stopped playing chess.

But we can't forget about the www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MqK...

A short story by Jorge Luis Borges

Ah yes, a variation on the classic Bongcloud Attack. www.chess.com/blog/Thummim...

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I love this!!!

Followed the link for this one bc I couldn’t readily find the title text. Felt like browsing a bit, and clicked random, then previous, then random again. The last 2 were about t-distribution and a line of best fit comic which referenced Lorentz distribution. Can you see where I’m going with this?

This could be a JL Borges essay

Just like me as a 1962 baby boomer People don’t think I understand certain things…. And they get shocked.

this is just the Cultist Simulator experience

@sarahz.bsky.social have you found this one yet?

QtipsANON. Chess pieces.

Better living through Chemistry. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you.