Riley!
@amy @pataphysicker funny french move is absolutely forced
@paulsrockinmastodon @amy it isn't actually forced on lichess but it might as well be when I'm playing because i always take it for the meme
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Playing OTB and insisting that Il Vaticano and Knightboosting are real techniques
@amy @paulsrockinmastodon i actually perform il vaticano every time it just doesn't take up a move so you can't tell
@amy @paulsrockinmastodon oh in the original meme it captures the pieces in between, i thought the joke was that it doesn't actually do anything
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Someone once asked ChatGPT to invent new chess moves, and one of them was "Swap your light and dark square bishops", but Il Vaticano was different
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon I genuinely think knightboosting is so cool. I understand that we can't just add that to chess now but. Man. It's so cool
@amy @paulsrockinmastodon i prefer the Cincinnati sidewinder
Answer inside
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon
Queen drift to D7!!
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon (There's also a real answer)
@amy @paulsrockinmastodon shrike club is allergic to both of these 😭
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Oh no!!!! It's one of my favorite AnarchyChess posts ha ha
Does it work if you click through to this instance? https://efdn.club/@amy/112290668524265431
@amy @paulsrockinmastodon yes it does! hahahahaha
@amy Well, I'm stumped. Unless I don't understand the pawn capture rules at *all*, which is possible, since I haven't won a game of chess since 1990.
a hint
@Austin_Dern @amy there is a legal move that wins you the game here, but you can't know that it's legal just from looking at the board. you have to infer that it's legal from the fact that there's no other solution
a hint
@monorail OK, if _that's_ the case then yes, I do see it.
@amy @pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Realizing the solution to this actually made me so mad
@amy @pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Like
I'm not surprised
But I'm still mad
@NatVoltaic @amy @paulsrockinmastodon okay yeah i get it
@NatVoltaic its always forced
@paulsrockinmastodon I mean in this case!
@pataphysicker @amy @paulsrockinmastodon (...for some reason the "special move"s made me think "what if chess pieces in Smash")
@pataphysicker @amy @paulsrockinmastodon love to use the Knight's limit break
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Ha ha ha ha ha ha
(Though it should be noted that FIDE considers castling a funny king move, as opposed to a funny rook move)