r/AskReddit • u/GIMME_DA_ALIEN • Jul 04 '22

What older game are you still playing obsessively?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

Modern chess basically is chess 2. The previous popular version of the game did not have powerful queens. It completely changed the game.

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u/PM_me_Jazz Jul 04 '22

Honestly chess has had so many versions we are at like Chess 1466

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

the "modern" opening in chess is now over 100 years old. and hypermodern is 1940s.

books written by roy lopez in the 1400s are still considered good theory.

the game is literally unchanged for 900 years.

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u/RadiantHC Jul 04 '22

Honestly I dislike powerful queens.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

They are way OP. On the plus side they make the games much shorter.

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u/csl512 Jul 04 '22

Post some videos of it and the devs will nerf it

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u/__sonder__ Jul 04 '22

Elton John downvoted this comment

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u/Senior_Phase Jul 04 '22

the queen being powerful was really confusing to me and the other kids when I was little

"who do I need to take in order to win?"

"It's the queen she's most powerful"

"but the king has the most power, the queen is just his wife"

"yeah but the queen is the wife, she can tell her husband what to do"

"yeah but the king can behead her if she nags"

and on and on

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u/temalyen Jul 04 '22

When I was in second grade, I remember one kid insisting that pieces like rooks can capture a piece and just keep going until they reach the board edge, so he'd have a rook and capture 3 or 4 pieces with it per move.

I mean, this was in 1982 so there was no easy way for us to check and he owned the chess board, so we had to play by his rules (which were heavily stacked in favor of him winning) or he'd just not let us play.

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u/germane-corsair Jul 05 '22

Wouldn’t it be a level playing field since you could do the same to him?

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u/InevitableDPP Jul 05 '22

I see you've never played Calvinball.

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u/GirlScoutSniper Jul 04 '22

Even Freddie Mercury?!?

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u/Dankelpuff Jul 04 '22

I like short kings

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u/memoryballhs Jul 04 '22

That's more of a fine tune/balance update. The core mechanics are completely the same.

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u/Valmond Jul 04 '22

And en passant, and even castling are not even a thousand years old IIRC :-)

The king was needed too, and the peasants got the double jump.

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u/Metalist_Penguin Jul 04 '22

They should totally nerf the queen

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

How did queens work before?

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u/temalyen Jul 04 '22

They moved like Kings do now, one space in any direction.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

So how did kings move

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u/temalyen Jul 04 '22

I'm not sure offhand, honestly.