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remember that any noble or clerical piece can be protected from pawns by invoking their respective legal privileges

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 10:27

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protip: remind the opposing bishops about the pope's support of your king in an attempt to override their feudal obligations through the doctrine of papal supremacy. bonus points if they are commanding significant amount of pawns

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 19:59

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if you are facing a check mate, simply declare "le roi est mort, vive le roi!" and keep playing with your new king

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 20:05

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if the game is going badly, consider asking you liege for aid. as his subject, you are owed his protection, and the emperor piece is loving sweet

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 20:14

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simply cease, for it is only the desire to best your fellow man that has driven you to this place. accept that this, like all other struggles, is a meaningless fight for a fleeting price.

you will only win in a true sense, by transcending the boundaries of this game and making peace with the truth that the material world is only a passing distraction

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 21:54

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the rather common petit-borgoise activity known in england as "chess", provides a rather illuminating case study into the structure of capitalist social economy.

for instance, take the very lay-out of the board. it is divided into a neat, symmetrical space, in which the various "pieces" (or should i say, social classes?) are permitted to move. in this socio-economical space, there is a theoretical ability for each piece to be placed.

this, in practice, is not the case. the working classes (as in all-too-familiar borgoise parlour are referred to as 'pawns') are only able to move in a more-or-less set pattern defined from their starting position. the small adjustments they have at their disposal are completely circumstantial. the overarching narrative they are fed, is that one day they will join the highest echelons themselves, but the sad reality lies only in a quick head start and/or a military career.

but to move on, we also have the more well-off denizens of this 'board'. take the clergyman, a rather diminished, but still socially powerful role in our industrialized society. what freedom do they possess with all their financial and social capital? more, of course, than the lowly pawn, but - still - he is chained to the same basic rules of movement. for you see, while the pawn has his own dregdeful pre-determined path, the clergyman as well is stuck in - what on the surface appears to be very different, but in a fundamental way the same - a set trajectory.

the 'towers', or the shopkeepers, the sought-after goldsmiths and clockmakers, and so on, are in this same functionally similar to the clergymen. they lack the socio-financial capital of their class-superiors in the true capitalist class, while still maintaining pretensions of their cultural values. this is what separates them from their petit-borgoise cousins in the clergy, as they strive to achieve success within a class-value-system they by definition are not part of. thus they move in a similar way as the pawns, only much quicker

and then we of course have the nouveau riche capitalists, part of the borgoise by financial capital, excluded by cultural. they resent both their former colleges, as well as those whom they aspire to be peers. this fundamental conflict makes them erratic, prone to go back and forth in their class allegiances.

but at the the very top of this 'game' we find the true core of the socio-economical-political pyramid; the functional aristocracy of wealth and power. tellingly the "king and queen" of this charade, the dualistic representation of hegemony of the capitalist society, are a paradoxical justification of it's own rule. you see, while the capitalist system represents itself as an unopposable "sol-invictus"-like persona of the 'queen', it still relies on the belief of it's in inherent fragility and, most importantly, irreplacability.

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 22:39

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Pomp posted:

Studying under the masters I learned the Scorched Earth strategem. Once your king is in check you call your opponent confederate scum and flip the table

uh, just set the board on fire. pawns can't move through fire

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 22:58

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 04:29

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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:

Doolittle's gambit- ask the horsies what they would do, then nod and "mm-hmm" for an hour as they whisper secrets in your ears.

horse secrets:

"im nervous"

"there was a scary hegde"

"i'm about to poop"

e: dont get me wrong horses are alright, i just htink theyre overrated

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 23:33

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