Recently on X (formerly known as Twitter), Chess.com made a lighthearted post: a black bishop and a white bishop with the caption “accepting new name ideas for this piece.” Like many of their past posts—knight becoming “horse guy,” rook being dubbed “castle dude,” and queen getting memed as “boss lady”—this was just internet fun.
Very Interesting. It is disappointing to see such hate. X is a cesspool, and I believe it should be entirely abandoned. Your breakdown of historical names for the pieces was informative, and I enjoyed the expanding of my knowledge of Chess Culture. What is left of MAGA is pure hate for those who cannot be saved. They don't care about people, they don't care about themselves, they care about hurting others. Such is the end of the road when someone is thoroughly indoctrinated. Sad but a truth we must accept. They are certainly the minority, and avoiding them in social spaces is best. When I challenge them to explain their position-- they cannot. When I ask them why, they don't know.
It is a tragedy, and I love chess. I'm not good; I can only think three moves ahead. Maybe we need to treat this moment like chess. Let's look at the board; I will think about that tonight. Thank you.
My goodness the internet can be a scary and unhinged place to be sometimes 😅 the absolute melodrama over something so harmless is absolutely strange behaviour. I'll never understand the anger that's fuelling those people commenting!
Very interesting post! I'm glad that the closest translation for that "bishop" is actually the Russian "слон" or elephant... besides, you're right about that all those keyboard warriors don't even know how to play chess...
Asking politely, don't you think, with this post, you are also contributing to the outrage culture rather than a solution culture? I mean, you spent a lot of time on this post, but did you really move the ball forward?
You missed the irony that the elephant is GOP mascot, or it used to be… before it became obese orange ass clown!
Very Interesting. It is disappointing to see such hate. X is a cesspool, and I believe it should be entirely abandoned. Your breakdown of historical names for the pieces was informative, and I enjoyed the expanding of my knowledge of Chess Culture. What is left of MAGA is pure hate for those who cannot be saved. They don't care about people, they don't care about themselves, they care about hurting others. Such is the end of the road when someone is thoroughly indoctrinated. Sad but a truth we must accept. They are certainly the minority, and avoiding them in social spaces is best. When I challenge them to explain their position-- they cannot. When I ask them why, they don't know.
It is a tragedy, and I love chess. I'm not good; I can only think three moves ahead. Maybe we need to treat this moment like chess. Let's look at the board; I will think about that tonight. Thank you.
My goodness the internet can be a scary and unhinged place to be sometimes 😅 the absolute melodrama over something so harmless is absolutely strange behaviour. I'll never understand the anger that's fuelling those people commenting!
Very interesting post! I'm glad that the closest translation for that "bishop" is actually the Russian "слон" or elephant... besides, you're right about that all those keyboard warriors don't even know how to play chess...
Asking politely, don't you think, with this post, you are also contributing to the outrage culture rather than a solution culture? I mean, you spent a lot of time on this post, but did you really move the ball forward?
I’m just pointing out how some people FREAKED OUT over what was obviously meant to be a harmless joke.
I know :)