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The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(
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Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3268/
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This is a football (soccer) thing, right? Because I think that's the only sport with the cards like that.
Spotting offside is very easy once you know how: if an exciting play happens, that's offside.
(patiently waiting for explainxkcd)
It’s a football (or soccer, if you’re so inclined) reference.
Overly simplified, the attacking side needs to have one other player besides the opposing goalkeeper in front of the ball to not risk being called off-side.
There is a lot more nuance to the rule, and even I don’t fully understand it 100%, but for the sake of this joke it should suffice.
Side is off.
Actually, since it's at the same line as the king or farther, it's not offside
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