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If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure there was backlash about the queen during its early years

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

To be fair whoever added the queen was clearly trying to min max without understanding the other side gets a queen too; she is like super OP.

Interestingly I actually read somewhere that when chess was first invented there was no queen on the board, and then just like the addition of Chun Lee to Street fighter led to a developer quitting because he insisted she had to have less health than everyone else, the queen became a staple of the franchise.