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half the pieces are black? DEI strikes again 🙄
There's fairy chess with custom rules. People historically have made changes they see fit to the game.
One thing I've been thinking about a but over the past few years is how standardization is really strange and sort of paralyzing. For how many hundreds of years were there hundreds of regional variants of chess, each with their own history and culture? But at some point these things have become standardized and whatever natural tendency they had to change has been neutered completely. Same thing with a pack of standard playing cards: are those going to have kings, queens and jacks on them forever, even after any sort of resonance these concepts once had have vanished?
Idea: replace the king with Stalin, queen with Mao, and the jack will be Lenin.
Stirner will be the joker
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Oh yeah I know and it's really cool. This is more me malding about gamerculture
I get that, I just think it's funny how people have bickering over chess rules as long as it's existed
Oh yeah that is funny too
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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