yawn … just the usual meaningless fight for power 
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Wow
Didn’t help him in the end
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Yeah I was watching it. Can’t believe the GOAT got knocked out haha
chess 960! nice!
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haha, hadn’t noticed that.
SenseRobot plays chess now
https://prelaunch.com/projects/senserobot-senserobot-ai-powered-smart-chess-coach-and-companion
They do realize Western Chess traveled to Europe through Muslims, right? If anything, they should embrace it
Watching the video, what are their “religious concerns”? if I recall correctly, the reason chess piece designs are abstract is to follow Islamic laws against images, so I thought that solved the problem to everyone’s satisfaction?
So they’re mentioning gambling, but if that were the problem you could just ban gambling on it rather than the game itself. It’s not a very good gambling game anyway, though Go’s hardly better and people gamble on that
And I guess they’re concerned about men and women playing together? but again, one could ban that without banning chess
Googling, it seems gambling is the only concrete concern listed; it’s implied there are others, but I can’t find what. Is there a Hadith that says “Narrated Aisha, I saw the prophet engaged in a game of small figures with Abu Bakr, whereupon the prophet overturned the board and said ‘Allah has revealed to me that this is a tool of the Shaytan to lead the upright off the path of Allah’”?
Ah, this explains it. The argument is that if Alcohol is Haram because a little can lead to a lot and a lot is Haram, then games even such as chess are Haram because a little can lead to a lot and a lot is Haram
The page opens by claiming that there are different views regarding chess in moderation, but reading it so far the case seems to be extremely strong against chess from an Islamic perspective. The rest of the article is a litany of support from Islamic sources for the view that chess is Haram. Some of the citations were not far off from my joke Hadith
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Chess as an esport
I always found this weird. Why does the pawn move forward but capture diagonally? En passant makes even less sense.
Pawns are the soul of chess, I don’t think it makes sense to question why they move forward and capture diagonally any more than it makes sense to question why bishops more diagonally
As for en passant, it was introduced to plug an unintended consequence of adopting the initial double-move: that it was too easy to close the position
The movement of the bishop matches the corresponding pieces in Xiangqi and Shogi, so it’s okay, but the pawn doesn’t… In Xiangqi and Shogi, the corresponding piece can only move forward and capture forward.
The meme answer being, of course, that the reason for this is because if they look their opponent in the eye as they kill them, they will see only their own face: that of a worker. The truth will dawn on them, that their enemy is their comrade and their king is their enemy.
IIRC there is a variant (Berolina?) where the “moving” and “capturing” directions are swapped, i.e. pawns move diagonally and capture forwards.
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