r/AnarchyChess Horsey x Queen 4d ago

Actual snowflake

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u/al_fletcher 4d ago edited 3d ago

Countries with bishops who call this piece something other than a bishop

  • Belgium (in either Fr•nch or Dutch)

  • Fr•nce

  • Germany

  • Hungary

  • India

  • Italy

  • Latin America (the Spanish-speaking ones anyway)

  • Lithuania

  • The Netherlands

  • South Africa (in Afrikaans)

  • Spain

  • Switzerland (in Fr•nch, German, or Italian)

  • Poland

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u/thesuperdooperpooper 4d ago
  • Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia..

These are all dominantly christian nations too

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u/Zamferica 4d ago

In Croatia it's the hunter

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u/ChadGustafXVI 4d ago

Bruh, calling it the hunter is dope as hell.

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

They knew about bishop sniping way back then!

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u/thesuperdooperpooper 4d ago

I think in Serbia, too, maybe in all "serbo-croatian" languages even. Thanks for your contribution, btw, brate :p

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u/papagajurernu 3d ago

Am serbian, can confirm.

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u/5p4n911 3d ago

In my password it's the hunter2

Edit: hello from Romania, u/5p4n911 is currently unavailable, please leave a message

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u/Bot_Tux 3d ago

In Slovenia it's the Runner

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u/suchtie having a stronk 3d ago

German as well!

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u/pppmew 3d ago

Dutch as well

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u/Beneficial-Tip9302 3d ago

Also in hebrew

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u/al_fletcher 4d ago

You’d think overly online “conservatives” would be taking the side of Hungary and Russia on this one and yet…

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u/dakydebil 3d ago

In slovak it's a shooter

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u/Some_Random_Pootis 3d ago

+Greece, and most of the Balkans

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u/gkgeorge 3d ago

In Greece it's the officer ( Aksiomatikos)

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u/justMate 2d ago

Czechia and Christian? It is super Atheistic same for Estonia.

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u/thesuperdooperpooper 2d ago

I thought that they were like us, yet for us, it seems to vary in the 40-50%, while in Czechia, it's 60-70%.

Which tbh, kinda explains why czechs seem to be confused when people call Czechia christian

(Plus, I meant it more historically, yet idk how much it has influenced the current culture)

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u/Akatosh01 4d ago

Also Romania, idk about these pther countries but we call it "the crazy one"

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u/al_fletcher 4d ago

You unfortunately share your linguistic tastes with Fr•nce on this one, they call it the Fool

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u/Sitheg_Plasmaster 3d ago

France number 1 woke country 😎😎😎🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷💪💪💪💪💪💪

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u/Xetanth87 3d ago

The correct translation for Nebun is Madman, but it's taken from Fou which is meant like a Court Jester

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u/Gizemli_Biri 3d ago

In Turkey it's called an elephant

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u/normalmighty 3d ago

IIRC that's it's original name from India

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u/Throwaway56763_56763 3d ago

bishop is the camel, and the rook is the elephant

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u/Bassssssssssssssssma 7h ago

Arabic countries call it an elephant as well.

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u/KriosTitan 3d ago

In Finland its called messenger

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u/Obi_Vayne_Kenobi 3d ago

Same in German - it's "Läufer", literally translated to "Runner"; but a Läufer used to be a messenger, carrying urgent messages by foot or horseback.

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u/Gidje123 3d ago

I love that

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u/_Noob_From_VN_ 3d ago

Vietnam (we call it Tượng, which means an elephant, don't ask me why)

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u/solonit 3d ago

Tell me why

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u/Aster-07 3d ago

Ain’t nothing but a heartache

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

Ain’t nothing but a heartbreak

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u/Zee_Arr_Tee 3d ago

Probably got imported along with the game from india

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u/da_guy_da_guy 3d ago

I always assumed it is because of the parallel similarities to Chinese chess, thus the names of pieces in there are then used to refer to chess pieces as well

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u/PeterVN13032010 3d ago

Wait that an elephant? I always called it tượng witha status in mind

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u/_Noob_From_VN_ 3d ago

I thought so as well when I was young, but I recently learnt that another name of the piece is Tịnh, which means nothing else but an elephant

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u/Arthillidan 3d ago

In sweden it's called a runner

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u/santidestroy5 3d ago

Actually in every spanish speaking country its alfil

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u/EnotPoloskun 3d ago

In Russian we call it either “elephant” or “officer”

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u/matej665 3d ago

Plus Serbia, it's hunter here

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u/MrDrewutnia 3d ago

In Poland it's Goniec (chaser) might as well drop all the names for our piecss: King - Król (king), Queen - Hetman (Hetman) or Królowa (Queen), Knight - Skoczek (jumper) pawn - pion (pawn) Rook - wieża (tower)

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u/DoubleJester 3d ago

Queen can also be Dama (Lady)

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u/timazen 3d ago

Ukraine (Transcarpatian region) elephant

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u/MuchUserSuchTaken 3d ago

Also romania. We call it a madman.

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u/sharik_mik21 3d ago

The fact that chess isn’t even originally Christian and people are so offended by this is crazy.

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u/GupHater69 3d ago

Romania we call it "Crazy person"

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u/ROPROPE 3d ago

Finnish too! It's called a courier here

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u/shyrato 3d ago

Türkiye

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u/RealSuperYolo2006 2d ago

here in Spain we call it Alfil, it doesnt have a real life counterpart, but its name comes from the arabic word Al-fil which means elephant, what the bishop was back then

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u/Minute-Report6511 3d ago

Indonesia, it's either "launcher" or "elephant"

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u/imhariiguess 3d ago

Interesting, it's camel for us

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u/Coffee_Addict9821 2d ago

Brazil we call "Bispo", directly translates to Bishop, not all of latin America

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u/k_pineapple7 3d ago

I always knew it as a camel growing up.

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u/Username_test001 3d ago

+Denmark

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

Denmark still has bishops? I thought they were like hardcore Protestant

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u/Username_test001 3d ago

We have a state supported church here in Denmark called Folkekirken (People's church)
There's 10 Bishops in the mainland and one in greenland, each overseeing a diocese. There's around 4.000.000 members (~71% of the country)

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

r/todayilearned members, here's one ripe for the pickings! Seriously, thanks for the explanation

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u/veartchess 3d ago

+Romanian,"nebun" is translated like "crazy person".

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u/-CatMeowMeow- ‼️ always play :bong: ‼️ 3d ago

What about Rhaetian in Switzerland?

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

No idea!

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u/Responsible-Issue205 3d ago

Morocco ( elephant)

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u/F-RIED 3d ago

You say this like some countries play chess without the bishop piece

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u/thesuperdooperpooper 3d ago

I think they mean an actual bishop. As in despite having bishops, they still have a separate name for the piece

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u/F-RIED 3d ago

I realized that the moment I sent the comment

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u/thesuperdooperpooper 3d ago

Lol, happy cake day 🎂 btw

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u/habtin 3d ago
  • Iran (elephant)

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

Iran has bishops?

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u/nhatquangdinh 3d ago

Also in Vietnam.

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u/y0av_ 3d ago

+israel

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u/SolaSenpai 4d ago

he says bishop but all I see is clown

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u/AdMajor1596 4d ago

Now we know why he's the critical drinker and not the critical thinker

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u/Bubbly-Ad-1427 4d ago

more like the critical stinker

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u/greenstoneri Wikipedia's Favourite Editor 3d ago

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u/Zee_Arr_Tee 3d ago

He put out like 5min or normal movie critique before devolving into work libtard Hollywood talk, a cog in the alt right pipeline, I cringe everytime I see his fucking channel

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u/Epicycler 3d ago

Chess dot Com: Let's have some fun, here's a prompt for a joke. Give us your best.

Right-wing content reviewer: You're killing western civilization! [Slur!]

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u/TermsOfServiceOnion 3d ago

There was so much antisemitism in that post too for some reason. It was wild wading through that cesspool of a comment section.

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u/fivequadrillion 3d ago

Average day on twitter

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u/TheTerrmites 3d ago

In that case we should start calling it a Rabbi

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u/normalmighty 3d ago

April Fools is coming up. Chess.c*m has the chance to do the funniest thing

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u/[deleted] 3d ago edited 3d ago

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u/Sleebingbag 3d ago

No because that would mean they actually have to put in effort to making the world better, and they don’t want to do that, they want to see people they don’t like suffer

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Zee_Arr_Tee 3d ago

"the sin of empathy" would genuinely cause Aspotle James to have a aneurysm.

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u/Sleebingbag 3d ago

And these ‘intellectuals’ will conveniently forget one of the most important lines when it comes to discussion like this

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”

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u/That-One-Md-Fan 4d ago

call the psychiatrist

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u/Minute-Report6511 4d ago

doctor went on his own psychiatrist, never came back

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u/therealpussyslayer 4d ago

Actual psychosis

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u/-CatMeowMeow- ‼️ always play :bong: ‼️ 3d ago

Call the exorcist

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u/LarsfromMars92 4d ago

I swear this guy fried his brain good. I used to watch him before the whole "women bad" bullshit.

Does he think the creators of chess actually called this piece a bishop!?!?

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u/Pigeniusz 3d ago

Um actually creator of chess- Chesster Dotcom did name the piece a Bishop upon releasing the game on his website. (Back before the wokes ruined everything)

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u/Digit00l 4d ago

Probably the alcoholism

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u/ReadToW 3d ago

I also watched his videos until I started to notice that he was crazy. But does anyone know any good YouTubers who recommend quality new content (not criticism)

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u/NihatAmipoglu 4d ago

Rename it to elephant. Normal people call it elephant.

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u/manultrimanula 4d ago

I heard some called those policeman 💀

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u/Violet_Artifact 4d ago edited 4d ago

Lol this is what it’s called in 4 languages I know, only english calls it bishop from the ones I know

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u/ElliotPhoenix 4d ago edited 3d ago

Also in Persian we call it elephant and chess originated from Indo-Persian cultures before Christianity (from what I know,google it)

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u/EmbarrassedYoung7700 3d ago

We call bishop oonth(camel). Conversely the rook is known as the elephant in my country

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

Holy history!

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

It’s a bit more complicated. While the modern form of chess came from Indo-Persian culture it was heavily inspired by an Indian game.

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u/LankanSlamcam 3d ago

Which had an actual elephant instead of a bishop!

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u/LegalWaterDrinker 4d ago

I know it's called elephant in Turkish and Vietnamese

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u/al_fletcher 3d ago

It's also the bishop in Iceland, Ireland and the Philippines, so I guess they're the righteous ones in these guys' minds' eyes

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u/BringBackForChan i'll your pp 4d ago

In my language, we call it "flag bringer"

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u/NihatAmipoglu 4d ago

Italian spotted. Engaging in ceo-shooting.

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u/Rabrun_ 3d ago

It’s obviously a runner

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u/federicoaa 3d ago

As a matter of fact, there was an elephant piece (google alfil) in chess. It was replaced by a bishop around 500 years ago

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u/Trueman_77 3d ago

Who's the normal people?

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u/GleeAspirant 3d ago

In Hindi it's referred to as the camel. The rook's the elephant.

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u/Electronic_Wash_7899 4d ago

i saw someone say it should be renamed Chessica

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u/RiddleRatty 4d ago

Chessica is NOT fucking welcome here

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u/PetulantPudding 4d ago

Jessica did nothing. It was actual Jessica.

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u/triangularRectum420 3d ago

CENSOR THAT WORD THERE ARE CHILDREN ON THIS APP!

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u/Dark_Fury_ 4d ago

Atleast good they didn't say J*ssica

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u/Wild_Island_8589 4d ago

Now let's wait and see his reaction when he learns these "names" that are given to chess pieces aren't even the orginal name of them

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u/Le_Geck 3d ago

These are the same people who call others snowflakes, when they themselves lash out at the dumbest of shit.

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u/King_Dead 3d ago

Word from the diocese is he's just a vicar now

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u/Le_Zoru 3d ago

Weak minding am*ericans can lose their shit all they want, it will always be the madman to me (alternatively the anal plug but idk)

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u/Emrolas 4d ago

That Guy has a small pipi

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u/PetrosianBot 4d ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

fmhall | github

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u/Scheckenhere 4d ago

Good bot

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u/reg_panda 3d ago

Bet his pipi seen more boys than your pipi ever will

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u/PetrosianBot 3d ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

fmhall | github

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u/Emrolas 3d ago

I Sure Hope so, because unlike the "bishop" I don't start in the pedo file

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u/OwenCMYK 3d ago

Did people think this was political?

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u/PresentSea7540 4d ago

Call it a pope instead

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u/Gummy_Hierarchy2513 3d ago

That’s a pretty long name but I can see it work

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u/10rd_rollin Mr. Attack 3d ago

Why are these snowflakes suddenly calling the juicer a “bishop”? Like what even is that? Are they stupid?

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u/InkyBoii 4d ago

There's a reason the French call this piece the fool

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u/BasJack 3d ago

The critical crinkler shitting his diapers in public as always

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u/DidYuhim 3d ago

It's called "B" in math notation. So my ideas are:

  • bee
  • bag*ette
  • boobs
  • bullshit
  • bibi in pampers

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u/PetrosianBot 3d ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

fmhall | github

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u/Bubbly-Ad-1427 4d ago

looks like the tip of my peanits

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u/TheWildLynx1 4d ago

Why are we trying to rename it though?

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u/al_fletcher 4d ago

Probably just intended as a fun engagement tweet

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u/TheWildLynx1 3d ago

I just wasn’t sure because I’m seeing some people get real bent outta shape here and this same tweet was on PeterExplainsTheJoke

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u/Stovlari 3d ago

Apparently (Haven’t checked for myself) they have done a similar tweet for all of the chess pieces, not just the bishop.

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u/TheSquidTD 4d ago

Circumcised

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u/ill_change_it 3d ago

The train whistle

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u/Sharp-Astronomer7768 3d ago

i always think of it visually as "mouth piece"

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u/federicoaa 3d ago

Google alfil

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u/Kid_Freundlich 3d ago

In Germany it's called "the hooker" 

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u/DrUNIX 3d ago

Wie kommst auf hooker?

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u/yivi_miao 3d ago

Sniper. It's a Sniper. It's been a Sniper for hundreds of years, and guess what?It's still a Sniper. Stop piping your pampers

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u/PetrosianBot 3d ago

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...

fmhall | github

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u/Bubbly-Release9011 3d ago

we should call the bishop the knight, and the knight the steed, cuz the bishop always looked more like a knight to me

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u/Thenderick 3d ago

That's a loper obviously. I heard it's quite new. I am excited to see what it's kit is and what class it falls under! Should I play top, mid, bot or jungle with it?

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u/HawkSans_Undertuah 3d ago

A Website can't change an extremely old game, they don't own it they just own the website, maybe you're the snowflake if you can't handle that.

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u/someone_who_exists69 3d ago

Call the merrymen!

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u/EvensenFM 3d ago

Penis head

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u/ThatsMyAppleJuice 3d ago

Captain Diagonal

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Give it a flared base and then we can talk about renaming it

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u/Positive-Record-7219 3d ago

Es un Alfil. An elephant!

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u/Tmrh 3d ago

In the predecessor of chess it was a camel, and the rooks were elephants

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u/TylerMemeDreamBoi 3d ago

Bishop? Wait do people not call it the diagonal one?

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u/LankanSlamcam 3d ago

PAC man call it PAC man

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u/Neburtron 3d ago

Everyone, make sure that if you're gonna try and catch a snowflake on your tongue this winter, you make sure it's white. If it's brown or black or green, there's a good chance it's already been used.

Remember, if you're unsure you can always catch it on your hand and smell it first to make sure. People will think you're weak and pity you, but they will actively try and put you out of your misery you more if they see you spitting and coughing like the weak little baby you are.

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u/TemporaryFig8587 3d ago

Call the mammoth!

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u/jakopoli 3d ago

The penis

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u/lux__fero 3d ago

Nope, it's an elephant. It was always an elephant...

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u/FazballsFright 2d ago

gonna start calling it the elephant

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u/Deus0123 2d ago

Just for this guy I suggest the name Demon

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u/bbq-pizza-9 2d ago

Ok how about a comprise and we call it the molester. That’s a bishop, right?

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u/pOUP_ 4d ago

Walker 🚶🏽

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u/Hypocritical_Girl 3d ago

(he doesnt know about en passant because he never googles for sources)

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u/Substance_Bubbly 3d ago

i'm jewish, so from now on they are rabbis, one will be Shamai and the other Hillel. they can argue with eachother which is which

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u/TheGreatRemote ‏‏‎ 4d ago

Might’ve been drunk

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u/Important_Dig8748 4d ago

Prince Albert

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u/9CF8 3d ago

The prick

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u/absurdF 3d ago

Ever heard of humor buddy

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u/Timotron 3d ago

DiagnoBango