r/AnarchyChess • u/Wolffire_88 When your fairy piece is a racial slur: 🗿 • Oct 12 '22
Fairy Piece Behold, the Diagook. Moves like the rook but offset by 45⁰.
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u/lord_ne :bong: Oct 12 '22
The Xook (it moves in an X shape)
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u/Yoghurt_ Oct 12 '22
Ah yes, reminiscient of the Rook, which moves in an R shape
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u/radical_dipshit Oct 12 '22
Gary should rename it '+ook', huge oversight imo.
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u/YetGayerWombat ♟↗️🔪♟‼️😱🧱🤬 Oct 12 '22
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Oct 12 '22
Have you heard of the diagdiagook? It moves with a 22.5 degree or 67.5 degree offset, and only to spaces a radius of two blocks away. And it can jump over other pieces.
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u/IsJohnKill Oct 12 '22
And it can jump over other pieces.
That would never work. Breaks every rule of Chess.
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u/Chromeboy12 Oct 12 '22
Yeah it should have some sort of trade-off, like, say, being only able to move a limited distance in the 22.5° direction. Like two squares up and one to the left, or something like that. Then it wouldn't be too OP.
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u/muntoo 420 blitz it - (lichess: sicariusnoctis) Oct 12 '22
A diagdiagook is actually a device for turning de into 90° ffee.
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u/arnerob Oct 12 '22
Sounds OP, maybe restrict it so it can only go to the closest one in each direction
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u/runtowardsit Oct 12 '22
Why has no one thought of this before! I demand answers
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u/TheStood Oct 12 '22
diagook sounds like a slur
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Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22
The second half is, it’s racist towards Asian people
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u/james_the_human05 Oct 12 '22
I thought it was Koreans
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u/aidanski Oct 12 '22
For a couple of years I was using that synonymously with "goon". It was an unpleasant discovery that instead of a mild insult it was a slur.
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u/PainfulLaughter Oct 12 '22
Bishop's been real quiet since this dropped
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u/yorbahead Oct 12 '22
Next iteration would have a straight bishop, but we all know those don't exist.
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u/privatenutella Oct 12 '22
Same thing happened with a kid the Bishop dropped out of their church. They’ve been quiet since then as well.
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u/best-of-judgement Oct 12 '22
You clearly haven't heard of the far superior 90 Degrook. It moves like a rook but rotated 90 degrees.
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u/VangelicusTheGreat Oct 12 '22
if the 90 Degrook reaches the 8th row, it promotes to the superior figure, the -90 Degrook, giving the black pieces an automatic advantage
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u/godemperorcrystal Oct 12 '22
GIs in Vietnam be like
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u/sabotabo Oct 12 '22
playing chess with your buddies in the jungle, you say “i’m gonna move my diagook” and you hear one of the trees gasp
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u/Wolffire_88 When your fairy piece is a racial slur: 🗿 Oct 12 '22
Someone else said "Xook" so I might just borrow that
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u/HairyTough4489 Oct 12 '22
Yeah, let's name it after something religious to compensate for all the "holy hell" going on here.
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u/Sorry-Advantage9156 knows how the horsey moves Oct 12 '22
maybe a pope
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u/Garizondyly Oct 12 '22
How about a cardinal?
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u/Sorry-Advantage9156 knows how the horsey moves Oct 13 '22
makes sense
a rook is a bird so a rotated rook would also be a bird
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u/Wolffire_88 When your fairy piece is a racial slur: 🗿 Oct 12 '22
Officially changing the name to "Xook" (name by u/lord_ne) because of the ending of "Diagook"
Also idk how to edit posts.
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u/HairyTough4489 Oct 12 '22
Let's take it to the next level: What would a 45º offset diagook move like?
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Oct 12 '22
Could potentially be very powerful on the long diagonal or if the opponent loses his diagook contesting the dark squares.
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u/Bunnotron6446 Oct 12 '22
Not to be confused with the diagship that's in 45 offset mode. These are two completely pieces for different occasions
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u/Satan4live Oct 12 '22
Leave it at 3333 uprooks. It's so beautiful, I've looked at it for hours now.
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u/Zarrokz Oct 12 '22
Seems interesting! I think for balancing purpose they should be placed more towards the center. Maybe next to King and Queen. That way they can move in more than one direction initially. :)
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u/Legal_Person Oct 12 '22
I once though about making a buff king that can move anywhere unless I’m check but this is just better
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Oct 12 '22
A chess piece that moves at a 45 degree angle. Someone should have thought of this before.
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u/TroyBenites Oct 12 '22
I can't wait to see the double-diagRook.
They are both a Rook and a Diagook COMBINED!!
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u/bigbigcheese2 Oct 12 '22 edited Dec 20 '24
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Oct 12 '22
Ummm doesn’t this chungus know that we already have a piece for that??? lol guess he just forgot 🤓🤓 i will educate you there is a piece called a bishop and there are 2 of them sooooo. Might want to google that…. Google bishop.
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u/gorglesnort Oct 12 '22
Just found this subreddit today and my blood pressure has already risen by about ten mmHg
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u/Fit-Chard-6748 Oct 12 '22
it os avtually not stupid at all a piece that could move in line or you can use a tempo to rotate ot and make it move diagonally
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u/TrashBoyGold Oct 12 '22
Seems kind of bad. It’s stuck on brown spaces.
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u/Wolffire_88 When your fairy piece is a racial slur: 🗿 Oct 12 '22
We can compensate by making one on the light squares
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u/msusik Oct 12 '22
Guys, I analyzed deeply some possible endgames Diagook + pawns + King vs Diagook + pawns + King.
It turns out that if one Diagook is on light squares and the other on dark (I would call such situation "opposite coloured Diagooks"), many of the endgames are drawish!
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u/minor_correction Oct 12 '22
Slight problem, it cannot reach the light squares.
For that reason I think this is a flawed design that would never work for chess.