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urda @lebowski.social

1y ago

How do you move your horsey?

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like this
- En serpant, a classy move
  
  Holy hell
  
  Google en serpant

Horsey obviously moves in 3D, that's how it jumps over other pieces
- I thought they originally teleported, but I was recently informed it was actually tetris blocks.
  
  In some editions, they can also clip through the tiles and move under other pieces
- So it actually moves into the imaginary plane
- Thinking outside the box.

Take the hypotenuse.
- I wish I was high on potenuse
  
  Get off your hypotenuse.
  
  Hey I said that!
- Take the high pot, and use what?

When my dad and grandpa were teaching me how to play chess, they told me that the knight moves in a "G" pattern. I could not for the life of me figure out how a G maps to what they showed me, so I figured out that it goes one diagonal, and then eitger one up if the diagonal was up, one down if it was down and the same reasoning for left and right. That's still how I visualize it.
Years later I realized that they meant the cyrillic G, which looks like this: Γ...
- That's hilarious 😂
- Ha. They got you. My dad taught that it's 2 spots in one (cardinal) direction, then 1 spot in another direction (demonstrating that the other direction has to be 90° to the original direction).

The first one because it represents a charging horse hitting someone off to their side with a lance.

3D Curve. Horseys jump...
- This is the correct answer. It is literally the point of the piece.

Holy hell anarchy chess is on lemmy
- It's one of the most active communities on my instance, which, as someone that never came across it on Reddit, has been hilarious.
- Always has been

You missed. One straight then one diagonal
- This, only I do one diagonal and then one straight.
  It weirds me out that people conceptualize it as turning a corner, the way OP has here.
  
  This has blown my brain. I have never considered doing the diagonal first.
  But then, my entire life I mounted a bicycle from the left, right leg over first. It occurred to me I did this so tried to mount my bike from the opposite direction. After finally figuring out how to even move my left left over the bars, I then fell over.
  So based purely on this experience, I shall continue to do forward, followed by diagonal.
- This is how they move in Xiangqi, Chinese Chess, because if the one straight in front of them is blocked, the move is illegal.
  
  That really cuts down on the utility of the horsey.
  
  What if the diagonal is blocked?
- This is the way

Option 1 and 2
Option 3 is for psychopaths
- I'm a psychopath????
  
  Yes, welcome to the club

A two by three diagonal straight from the origin to the destination.
- As the ~~crow~~ horsey flies
- Thank you.

I draw a circle sqrt(5) units in radius, then pick a target square based on whether that circle goes through the exact center of the square.

I always go around and attack from the back so they don't see it coming
- This is why I try to kill all the horses first.
- That's the traditional "Nothing Personnel"

Usually A, or B. But C after a few drinks.

Am I the only one who "jumps" the horse over the squares, even if there's nothing there, and makes horse noises? Or like when I capture, I do the goring noises as the horse tramples the other piece underfoot?

D. A portal opens on the start and end square and the horsey just falls through

The long bit, then the short bit.

Left 5, up 2, right 4, for example. If there's not enough space on the board to do that, I can't move the horsey that way

Right Up Left Up Right
- he a baller
  
  Thanx.

Why not triangulate?

Mine goes forward, spits on the opposing king's face, then comes back to the desired square

Have you considered, teleportation?
- It's nothing personnel, kid
- :o

It just teleports. This proves when chess was invented it was far ahead of time.

Depends if you trained it for dressage.

Yes.

I do it as one space in a cardinal direction and then one diagonal in the same direction.
- Is it cardinal or orthogonal?
  
  Porque no los dos?

I move in circles around the board and then home in on the desired squares. We all know horses could move however they want if they weren't so stupid

Left ones. I always imagine a knight with his lance on the left or right while charging for the enemy and skewers them

I make an S shape

I do one up and then one to up-right

Longest direction first for me, no matter where I go it is two steps then one.

Google wormhole
- Holy hell
  
  New hypothetical spacetime structure just dropped

I always go with 1st option when I'm doing the move in my head.

Yes

X,Y

I don't know why, but for me it's the one on the left

With a gallup.

Depends if the horse has a boner or not.

It teleports.

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