REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 14 hours agoIf chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.message-squaremessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down12
arrow-up1113arrow-down1message-squareIf chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareTraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-212 hours agoWasn’t en passant invented to “balance” chess? Something about the first pawn move being too powerful in the end game because it meant any pawn in a starting position could just skip being threatened by an opposing pawn if it moves two squares.
Wasn’t en passant invented to “balance” chess?
Something about the first pawn move being too powerful in the end game because it meant any pawn in a starting position could just skip being threatened by an opposing pawn if it moves two squares.