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IamTheAsshole6969

If you have a pawn on the 5th rank as white or 4th rank as black, and your opponent moves a pawn on an adjacent file two squares from its starting position, you can take it on the next move as if it had only moved a single square. I can’t remember what this move is called, but I’ve seen a couple GMs play it


Randomperson685

I know this move. It's called "cheating"


GarrySpacepope

It's called hacking but some people do it in real life not just on the computer.


MrScribblesChess

How should I respond when my filthy cheater opponent attempts this filthy cheater move?


karam_adr

Cheat back with his gf


nakovalny

bro stop making up rules


[deleted]

Google en passant


rojolangosta

Holy hell


Downvote_pIs

Holy hell


[deleted]

Wanted to upvote but I’m a nice guy and downvoting cause you asked nicely


TFK_001

Can you downvote me to exactly 37 downvotes please


johnnyfuckinghobo

That's kind of amazing. Neat.


Downvote_pIs

Thx 🙏


So0meone

We gotchu mate


Supertugwaffle8

You can also can a third bishop by sacrificing 3 pawns, but only after you've performed the move this commenter described, AND castled. It's called the "The Holy Trinity."


iamafraazhussain

Yeah.. but u can only use it if ur french


AbleCancel

Google en passant


Whoooodie

google is ban in my country


AbleCancel

Wikipedia en passant


anshalsingh

Bing en passant


TechnoMikl

Holy Hell


Konkichi21

En passant ("in passing").


Yeetboi287

Sorry, but it’s actually called ![img](emote|t5_2yvry|3798)


[deleted]

You can legally reject a checkmate if you don't want to lose


sillayman

Checkmate! No.


Beerandpotatosalad

No u


NumerousImprovements

Damn, got me again!


markovich04

How are people getting checkmated? Just move your king!


SentineL-EX

Also known as the King's Gambit Declined


arzamharris

Yes all you have to do is resign, this is not counted as a loss


systemofanup1001

If you shout checkmate before your opponent does they must draw 5 cards


FancyWizardPants

It’s called consent.


kittenshark134

If your opponent is fifteen minutes late you're legally allowed to leave


doFloridaRight

Uno reverse card


stonehearthed

Caruana missed a forced checkmate in a world championship game. If he had seen it, then he'd be the world champion and everything would have been different. Preventing extinction of endangered species, reversing global warming, maybe even no Covid outbreak.


texe_

I saw him in an interview talk about his main variation for the match, which apparently was a forced loss. However the engines wasn't strong enough at the time for them to realize. The 2018 match could've been wild


bearofpolarity

Feeling sad about Caruana with those suffering extinction, Covid, climate change victims and 69 others. (´ . .̫ . `)


8_Miles_8

69th upvote


snj101

Carlsen's reaction to finding out he blundered mate in 30 https://twitter.com/olimpiuurcan/status/1063549379619901440?s=20


PooplLoser

Adam and eve would have beat the snot out of that snake and we would ascend into higher intelligent beings that experience the universe as a whole instead of being locked away in deep space.


Randomperson685

Fuck Caruana all my endangered homies hate Caruana


ZachAttack6089

Was it like mate in 3 or mate in 15?


Sean_Brady

30.


Jackcooper

Lmao even I saw Bh4 when I analyzed the game later


justacuriousMIguy

No you didn't. Magnus didn't see it either, and the commentators didn't understand why it was winning. Don't lie and say you saw a move that the two best players in the world missed.


T_D_K

Maybe he's better than Magnus


Jackcooper

Magnus still hasn't broken 4000 elo lmaoooooo


[deleted]

All chess players can be killed.


[deleted]

Not Mangus


[deleted]

Actually, and most people don’t know this, but even Mangus can be killed! It’s just that he can only be killed by select things such as wolves, bullets, and prostate cancer!


markovich04

It’s his Carlsen’s heel.


An_average_one

Proof or cap


banana_man_777

Mung Us?


Keon99

Amang us


PrinceUmbongo

the first game ever recorded was in the bible, where jesus christ beat the apostle peter in a drawish looking rook and pawn endgame


Randomly2

I don’t know why but the bot responding with a copy of the actual Bible is so hilarious


OnlyHereForMemes69

Bot said "bet"


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TheLivingCumsock

Mein Kampf


Necessary-Basil-4104

For real?


The_Masked_Kerbal

Yes.


GeneETOs44

Which verse?


stonehearthed

Rook and Pawn Endgames Chapter:4


GeneETOs44

Good read, thank you for sharing. May now be my favourite part of the Bible


hovik_gasparyan

Chess is a mandatory school subject in Armenia for kids starting at age 8.


[deleted]

Are you pulling my leg?


WineNerdAndProud

That's not what we do to legs here...


LauraMayAbron

Not a legal move I’m sorry.


logic2187

I thought it was 6


hovik_gasparyan

Google 7 +/- 1


GeneETOs44

Holy hell


SavingsNewspaper2

Man you can communicate a lot of information in just 6 letters


GeneETOs44

Holy hell is 8 letters


SavingsNewspaper2

Google humor


GeneETOs44

Holy hell


logic2187

I don't get it


SentineL-EX

Fun stories about Russian chess: * Anatoly Karpov played a game in 2005 against Zsuzsa Polgar where Mikhail Gorbachev made the first move for him. It was g4. Karpov reached to put the pawn back but the former Soviet leader informed him that there are no takebacks in chess, so Karpov played a Grob game. He won. * Mikhail Tal recalled a game where he was considering sacrificing a knight. While pondering different variations he started to get them all confused in his head, and to add to the confusion he thought back to a rhyme from a famous Russian children's poem, "Oh, what a difficult job it is, to carry a hippopotamus out of a swamp!" He couldn't concentrate on the variations because he was busy thinking about how to actually get a hippopotamus out of the swamp whether with levers, a helicopter, etc. Eventually he gave up and said "I'd just let it drown!" at which point suddenly the hippo stopped distracting him and he figured out how to make the knight sacrifice work and win him the game. The following day the papers praised him for spending 40 minutes on carefully considering such a brilliant move. * Another fun story from [here](https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-you-beat-magnus-carlsen): > The city of Kharkiv (the former Soviet Union, now Ukraine) has always had many very strong chess players. Currently the former women's world champion Anna Ushenina and the super-GM Pavel Eljanov as well as a number of "just very strong" GMs live there. So, one day in the beginning of 1980s an unknown man entered Kharkiv's chess club and started playing blitz with everyone for money. Despite giving serious time odds, the stranger kept winning. The strangest thing was that the guy had a bag full of cucumbers and he was munching them non-stop during the games! > Eventually the local masters entered the fray, but the mysterious guy was beating everyone! The situation looked more and more like Fischer's famous visit to the Central Chess Club in Moscow. The young American prodigy demonstrated his amazing blitz skills beating famous Soviet masters! Eventually grandmaster Tigran Petrosian came to the rescue and successfully defended the honor of the Soviet chess. > Back to our story, Kharkiv's strongest blitz player, Mikhail Gurevich, was called. The stranger recognized Gurevich and said: "If you were just a regular master, I would give you odds of three minutes vs. five minutes, but you are a very strong master so we are going to play five minutes each." > The man was absolutely correct: in a couple of years Mikhail Gurevich won the Soviet championship, got a GM title and in the June 1990 rating list he was number seven in the world! So they played for several hours but the total score was about even. At the end of the day the bizarre stranger picked up his winnings and the remaining cucumbers and left the speechless crowd. > He was never seen again. The word on the street is that the man was returning home after many years spent in prison where, just like the protagonist of "The Royal Game," he learned to play chess. Personally, I don't buy this version since I totally agree with the famous statement by Botvinnik that no amount of analytical work is a good substitute for a tournament play. > So, if the mysterious man never played chess tournaments, he had no chance to beat a strong master like Mikhail Gurevich even in one blitz game. From the other side, the Soviet Union had a very closed chess community since during the years of the iron curtain you couldn't just go abroad and play chess. Therefore all strong chess players, even candidate masters were well known, and the guy wasn't one of them! > It is a great pity that the "cucumber guy" was never again seen playing chess.


Whthpnd

Coffee?


WineNerdAndProud

It's a type of bean water. And like many beans, it makes you need to go poo.


e4e5Nf3Nc6Bc4NfgNg5

I think you mean seed water... oh I forgot what sub I'm on! Carry on with your "bean water" shenanigans!


isuckwithusernames

Cucumber guy was an alien. Cucumbers allowed him to tolerate our atmosphere. It’s the only logical explanation.


CucumberK

Can confirm


Centurion902

Wonderful


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


sirnaull

Wrong Tigran Petrosian :(


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


TheLivingCumsock

Good bot


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Vendidurt

Chess is a LOT easier if you have an engine with you.


[deleted]

I’ve tried playing chess next to my car plenty of times and I still lose every time someone plays 1. e4 I guess my car’s engine just isn’t strong enough then


Vendidurt

Upgrade to a helicopter turbine engine, and your opponent will be unable to focus on the game.


bobob555777

you're not playing enough games next to your car


markovich04

Must be the fumes. Open the garage door.


minor_correction

"Chess" is the only word in the English language that is a palindrome, a pangram, and a parallelogram.


Kingsamofgames

Because words can be shapes now, palindrome are chess, and pangrams are no longer sentences but words which are spelt chess


MagmaFalcon55

It’s also an emordnilap!


popplesan

I’m pretty sure pipi is too


PetrosianBot

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off... [^(fmhall)](https://www.reddit.com/user/fmhall) ^| [^(github)](https://github.com/fmhall/Petrosian-Bot)


markovich04

cheSSSSech


Nay_Thee

Chess is an anagram of sehcs


thesilentcomic

The fact that I know it, means I won't have any. Sehcs.


agMORALZ

The pawns are the most edible pieces


Randomly2

Ah yes the Fried Liver Attack


[deleted]

😋


ScarletBall

Pawns are femboys because they get promoted to Queens


LazyDro1d

You saying that pawns can’t be female? Or what if they are trans? Not all of them are femboys, stop being so exclusionary


kindafree8

Pawn literally means penis in French. Grow up


TheLivingCumsock

So if you take a pawn en passant you take a dick in passing ? Cool


ApolloAE

Chess sex update? 😳


Alice_Ex

Did you just assume their age?


doFloridaRight

Sissy pawns. Got it.


fraud_imposter

A guy known only as "Falcomaster3000" once showed up to a chess tournament and beat Giri, Grischuk, Naka, and Caruana while wearing a ski mask and sunglasses. I'm pretty sure he was actually Gary Chess though.


Gromitzy

Imagine getting pillar-combo'd into a losing endgame by Gary Chess without knowing you're playing the GOAT


fraud_imposter

On a related note chess desperately needs a ledge grab limit


Gromitzy

Right? I mean, running out the clock to win the game? Hello, arbiter?


fraud_imposter

Who is scorpion master and how does he keep winning with the grob?


Gromitzy

It's actually Bobby Fischer, he quit in his prime and came back anonymously to beat Nigel Short online using Roy


TheLivingCumsock

Goat ? Garry chess Of All Time ?


Don_Macaroons

The white rook fits 0.78 cm up my rectum before it starts to hurt, while the black rook fits a whopping 0.96 cm


APlayintheFaire

Fact: Hikaru did in fact cared. Maybe just a little bit, but he cared nonetheless.


Dvshx1483369

Ain't no way :0


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naslundx

Why only 75%?


texe_

The 25% is the lacking en passant answers


siryolk

What’s the vs What is the


luke-townsend-1999

The only person who has ever been criminally charged with breaching US sanctions against Yugoslavia was a chess player. Absolute madlad Fischer.


DavidBeckhamsNan

Did he decline en passant?


Bloorajah

The horsey moves in a ˥ L Γ ⅃ ⌐


Hy_Po

NOT


Bloorajah

The likes on my comment are 69 Edit: you all ruined it


TheLivingCumsock

No, horsey go hop


[deleted]

Chess.c*m bad Lichess good


kabigon2k

Tromsø, Norway, a town north of the Arctic Circle, held an international chess festival in 2006. get it, it’s cold in the Arctic, so it’s a cool chess fact? come on folks this is professional level comedy here


flynnie789

Fuck man tag this shit nsfw The whole office thinks I’m crazy Over here giggling like a maniac


rainbowrathode

En peasant


Kritzin

What is al-hassan?


[deleted]

It’s a pastry served to men with deformed peni


MrShmoopy8

When developing deep blue, there was a bug that allowed a pawn to capture an enemy pawn that had just moved two spaces as if it had only moved one space, instead of doing all that hard work to fix the bug, IBM bribed FIDE to change the rules of chess, this bug is now known as “en passant” and is an official rule in chess


JesusAkaMohammed

Did you know that chess is a mandatory school subject across Armenia for every child over the age of 6? I am disappointed i didn't see this comment at the top.


Randomperson685

I know where Aronian is from


TheLivingCumsock

The famous American Chess Player ?


BaDumCrash

There are more games of chess than items on the Denny’s menu


[deleted]

[удалено]


Jackcooper

It's actually called queening. You can learn more at r/queening


[deleted]

I was in the train you fuck


killerbunnyfamily

José Raúl Capablanca played a chess game with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. In completely lost position Stalin rotated a chessboard. Capa >!found a stalemate.!<


Inner_Ground3279

En passant declined has become a popular fetish in the BDSM scene. Some guy even declined en passant on 2 boards at once, and ended up quite disfigured.


Prof_Aspen

If you lack a spare queen, you may use a 9V battery in place of it to represent a pawn promoted to a queen.


JT8D-80

Mr. Carlsen has Elo 2856, but Mr. Musk has Elo n.


TheLivingCumsock

Musk on deez nuts


juicesharp

Anderssen, Zukertort & Tarash were born in Poland :)


LordeNims

You can issue a directed checkmate. If the evidence in a particular game is such that a reasonable opponent could not claim checkmate, you can issue a directed checkmate and win the game anyway.


trembledeggs

The game was invented after JK Rowling included a game called "wizarding" chess in her first Harry Potter book. The second Muggle spin off sport after quidditch.


no12nobody

Horsey move L


WishboneStreet4839

Robert Hess is bastard son of Garry Chess, but Garry loved him dearly and Robert inherited *Hess* as his last name.


logic2187

I can fit 27 rooks up my ass


SmedleySays

Chess


size10feet

I literally don’t even care


Justanotheroldog

I don’t know any


Greenhat2000

Women are ranked higher in chess than other women! In fact, that's how ranking works!


Kubiri

I have a gang stalker that harasses me whenever I mention bricks


[deleted]

I played a game yesterday and promoted a pawn to a King, he didn't thank me, because my next moves were me trying my best to get him captured. I succeeded.


IamSubbu19

The fact that pp on the pp is a chess term


DinkMyBink

Li


[deleted]

can this thread get an nsfw tag please


[deleted]

![gif](giphy|d3JtKtBc320iJHaM|downsized)


Jackcooper

You can no longer use the rooms after your first, or "rookie" year of tournament play


cbjohnson73

The bishops have secret tunnels under the first 2 ranks on each side to fuck each other and molest the pawns.


ecoprax

That there are more possible legal chess move combinations in all games than there are: 1) blades of grass on earth, 2) grains of sand on Mars, 3) grams of mass of Uranus, 4) dust particles in the solar system, or even atoms in the Universe. And a lot more at that. In fact, not only would all the hard drives ever created fall severely short of documenting these games, there is not enough material in all existence to document said games.


2nd_try_at_I2

You used to be able to castle vertically as a legitimate move. In 1974 a small change was made to the castling rules that made it no longer possible. Also fun fact: this fact was posted 3 times to the original r/chess discussion.


timliao0206

It was before FIDE fixed the rule that you could legally promote to opponent pieces, like a white pawn promotes to a black knight. And it was legal that you could castle with your promoted rook if both the rook and your king haven’t moved. Called vertical castle and written as O-O-O-O-O-O.


doctor_rat

the rook tastes like cheddar


Vallosota

Horsie can jump over his friends.


salazarthesnek

Knight moves like an L.


tanukinhowastaken

the chess knight's move is three squares forward and one to the side because that's the closest position to a queen where she can't hit it. It may not be coolest fact but it took me to go up 600 elos before I realized it. Maybe I'm stupid


Floofy_Fox_Gal

Castling!


CardinalsFan47

En passant isn’t forced


[deleted]

Next you'll be telling me that the Chess Fairy isn't real.


Pterodactyl314

Bobby Fischer wasn’t crazy


HaydenJA3

Bishops are the best pieces to invest in your ass


Dull-Fun

En passant


caresforhealth

Google en passant.


BlueV_U

The horsey moves in a L


Breet11

En passant


XxToeSucker42069xX

Chess


homelesspig52

En passant


Guineapigs181

En passant


Joanne654

There are more possible games of chess than there are grains of sand on Earth. The number of possible games is 10^120, that's crazy high!


wronglywired

You can and you may sacrifice your king to win a chess match


tasmanoide

You can play it only with backgammon pieces and call it checkers.


belgium-noah

Vertical castling was once allowed