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** ''Mid Tier'': The bishops and knights are both considered the ''minor pieces'' and are worth about 3 points each. A bishop is worth slightly more than a knight and two bishops together are better than two knights or a mixture of both. However, the knight is better in closed games while the bishop needs a lot of room to be effective. Three of these equal a queen, or a rook plus a pawn.
** ''Low Tier'': Pawns, who are mostly your first line of defense and are used to open up positions for the more powerful pieces to attack. However, they become much more important in the endgame when the board opens up and they are able to promote. Isolated pawns are very weak; connected pawns are, however, much stronger because an opponent won't want to sacrifice a more valuable piece to break them up. A single pawn can decide a game in some situations. Worth one point each.
** ''Low Tier'': Pawns, who are mostly your first line of defense and are used to open up positions for the more powerful pieces to attack. However, they become much more important in the endgame when the board opens up and they are able to promote. Isolated pawns are very weak; connected pawns are, however, much stronger because an opponent won't want to sacrifice a more valuable piece to break them up. A single pawn can decide a game in some situations. Worth one point each.
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** ''Mid Tier'': The bishops and knights are both considered the ''minor pieces'' and are worth about 3 points each. A bishop is worth slightly more than a knight and two bishops together are better than two knights or a mixture of both. However, the knight is better in closed games while the bishop needs a lot of room to be effective. Three of these equal are usually considered to be better than a queen, or and two slightly better than a rook plus a pawn.
** ''Low Tier'': Pawns, who are mostly your first line of defense and are used to open up positions for the more powerful pieces to attack. However, they become much more important in the endgame when the board opens up and they are able to promote. Isolated pawns are very weak; connected pawns are, however, much stronger because an opponent won't want to sacrifice a more valuable piece to break them up. A single pawn can decide a game in some situations. Worth one pointeach.each, but gain value as they get close to promotion.
** ''Low Tier'': Pawns, who are mostly your first line of defense and are used to open up positions for the more powerful pieces to attack. However, they become much more important in the endgame when the board opens up and they are able to promote. Isolated pawns are very weak; connected pawns are, however, much stronger because an opponent won't want to sacrifice a more valuable piece to break them up. A single pawn can decide a game in some situations. Worth one point
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** Modern chess computers finally killed the the centuries-long viewpoint that keeping pieces on the board and defended is more important than activity. While the 1920s style of "hypermodern" chess did develop a theory of "good" and "bad" bishops depending on them being blocked by their own pawns, the post-2010s computers finally ended the debate for good. These computers would rather kill the activity of an opponent by blocking pieces, gaining a small but devastating long-term positional advantage.
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** ''Low Tier'': Pawns, who are mostly your first line of defense and are used to open up positions for the more powerful pieces to attack. However, they become much more important in the endgame when the board opens up and they are able to promote. Isolated pawns are very weak; connected pawns are, however, much stronger because an opponent won't want to sacrifice a more valuable piece to break them up. [[ForWantOfANail A single pawn can decide a game in some situations.]] Worth one point each.
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** ''Low Tier'': Pawns, who are mostly your first line of defense and are used to open up positions for the more powerful pieces to attack. However, they become much more important in the endgame when the board opens up and they are able to promote. Isolated pawns are very weak; connected pawns are, however, much stronger because an opponent won't want to sacrifice a more valuable piece to break them up. [[ForWantOfANail A single pawn can decide a game in some situations.]] situations. Worth one point each.
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** The "en passant" move of the pawn is the most frequently overlooked or forgotten rule in the game. And for a newbie, thinking that you can move your piece to safety, only to discover that it's not actually safe, can be extremely frustrating. 1d4chan [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Chess#Special_rules even jokes that the hardest part of writing a chess A.I. is programming them to argue for half an hour that you can't do that with a pawn.]]
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** The "en passant" move of the pawn is the most frequently overlooked or forgotten rule in the game. And for a newbie, thinking that you can move your piece to safety, only to discover that it's not actually safe, can be extremely frustrating. 1d4chan [[https://1d4chan.1d6chan [[https://1d6chan.org/wiki/Chess#Special_rules even jokes that the hardest part of writing a chess A.I. is programming them to argue for half an hour that you can't do that with a pawn.]]
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** ''Bottom Tier'': A blocked bishop (one that is hemmed in by its own pawns) is useless except for defending the pawns. Even worse is a backward or doubled pawn (has a friendly pawn in front of it and can't advance).
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** ''Bottom Tier'': A blocked bishop (one that is hemmed in by its own pawns) is useless except for defending the pawns. Even worse is a backward pawn (a pawn which is not supported by adjacent pawns because those pawns have advanced further, and which can't advance because the square in front of it is attacked) or a doubled pawn (has a friendly pawn in front of it and can't advance).
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* MemeticBadass: Chess.com's Martin bot, when not being treated as a MemeticLoser, will get this treatment instead. Given that he can ''consistently'' find some of the worst moves in every position yet can still see mate in two, some players have speculated that he's secretly a grandmaster-level player who intentionally plays badly so that his opponents (including his kids, according to his profile) don't get discouraged from playing the game.
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** In recent years China has become a powerhouse in international chess, between World Champion Ding Liren, Women's World Champion Hou Yifan[[note]] who became a Grandmaster at 14 and won her first championship at 16, both records for women's chess[[/note]], ''fifty'' other recognized Grandmasters[[note]]all of them having gained that title since 1990 and most since 2000[[/note]], as well as multiple Chess Olympiad medals. It's still not as popular with the general public as Xiangqi (or {{TabletopGame/Weiqi}} for that matter) but that margin is much, much narrower than it used to be.
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** The king's limited mobility in chess is often interpreted as being a weaker piece. Some assume that it refers to the fact that many historical kings were older, physically weaker men who were well past their battle years. A more modern interpretation suggests that this is symbolic of the fact that a king's power was not in what he could personally do, but in the influence and control that he had over others. A physically powerful man may be able to fight several enemies at once and win, but this does not necessarily translate into leadership, political, or strategic skills. A king pre-occupied with the governing of his kingdom, daily aspects of the StandardRoyalCourt, and the task of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition people pleasing]] is usually obligated to leave the fighting to the professionals. [[note]]Although a king can't be "fired" or "voted out of office" per se, a king can still be "removed", but it's often not a very pleasant aspect for the king in question[[/note]]. History has shown that there is an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility inverse relationship between the amount of power one has and the amount of freedom to act independently]].
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** The king's limited mobility in chess is often interpreted as being a weaker piece. Some assume that it refers to the fact that many historical kings were older, physically weaker men who were well past their battle years. A more modern interpretation suggests that this is symbolic of the fact that a king's power was not in what he could personally do, but in the influence and control that he had over others. A physically powerful man may be able to fight several enemies at once and win, but this does not necessarily translate into leadership, political, or strategic skills. A king pre-occupied with the governing of his kingdom, daily aspects of the StandardRoyalCourt, and the task of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition people pleasing]] is usually obligated to leave the fighting to the professionals. [[note]]Although a king can't be "fired" or "voted out of office" per se, a king can still be "removed", but it's often not a very pleasant aspect for the king in question[[/note]]. question.[[/note]] History has shown that there is an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility inverse relationship between the amount of power one has and the amount of freedom to act independently]].
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* MemeticLoser: The Martin bot on Chess.com is [[WarmUpBoss the weakest computer opponent]] in the game, akin to VideoGame/PunchOut’s Glass Joe. His ludicrously poor playing of the game has led to him being a symbol of mockery by users of the website. That is, until an ''even weaker'' bot in Oscar was released, with a rating of 200 compared to Martin's 250.
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* MemeticLoser: The Martin bot on Chess.com is [[WarmUpBoss the weakest computer opponent]] in the game, akin to VideoGame/PunchOut’s Glass Joe. His ludicrously poor playing of the game has led to him being a symbol of mockery by users of the website. That is, until an ''even weaker'' bot in Oscar was released, with a rating of 200 compared to Martin's 250.
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* MemeticLoser: The Martin bot on Chess.com is [[WarmUpBoss the weakest computer opponent]] in the game, akin to VideoGame/PunchOut’s Glass Joe. His ludicrously poor playing of the game has led to him being a symbol of mockery by users of the website.
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* MemeticLoser: The Martin bot on Chess.com is [[WarmUpBoss the weakest computer opponent]] in the game, akin to VideoGame/PunchOut’s Glass Joe. His ludicrously poor playing of the game has led to him being a symbol of mockery by users of the website. That is, until an ''even weaker'' bot in Oscar was released, with a rating of 200 compared to Martin's 250.
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** A similar case could be said with the "Rook". It looks like a castle, not a bird! (It comes form the Persian word for castle.) Some players do call it a "Castle". Do note the term castling and the fact that most other languages call it a "tower" or something similar. Strangely, in Russian the Rook is called a Ладья (''lad'ya'') which means "Longship" (like the Vikings used).
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** A similar case could be said with the "Rook". It looks like a castle, not a bird! (It comes form from the Persian word for castle.) Some players do call it a "Castle". Do note the term castling and the fact that most other languages call it a "tower" or something similar. Strangely, in Russian the Rook is called a Ладья (''lad'ya'') which means "Longship" (like the Vikings used).
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* AccidentalInnuendo: The liberal use of the term "mating" (as in checkmating) in game discussions means you're bound to hear at least a few phrases that sound very awkward when interpreted as the ''other'' kind of "mating".
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** In shogi (a Japanese chess variant), the "king" has also been viewed as representing the children of that player's color -- the future, if you will. Referenced in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.
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** The Queen is the most powerful chess piece, contrary to some, but not all historical queens. In Chess' origin country in The East, the Queen was actually a Vizier, an obviously male adviser who historically could act as a power behind a throne, [[EvilChancellor especially if the king is young or weak]]. However, in the equally patriarchal Europe, this piece became a queen but it may represent political influence as Queens acted as ambassadors and diplomats. The queen's power in chess may reflect either political influence or the actions of a Queen's agents, spies, and personal guards. In the end, she is still acting on the orders of her king. More cynical schools of thought may see the queen's power in [[TheVamp seduction and sex]].
** The King's limited mobility in chess is often interpreted as being a weaker piece. Some assume that it refers to the fact that many historical kings were older, physically weaker men who were well past their battle years. A more modern interpretation suggests that this is symbolic of the fact that a king's power was not in what he could personally do, but in the influence and control that he had over others. A physically powerful man may be able to fight several enemies at once and win, but this does not necessarily translate into leadership, political, or strategic skills. A king pre-occupied with the governing of his kingdom, daily aspects of the StandardRoyalCourt, and the task of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition people pleasing]] is usually obligated to leave the fighting to the professionals. [[note]]Although a king can't be "fired" or "voted out of office" per se, a king can still be "removed" but it's often not a very pleasant aspect for the king in question[[/note]]. History has shown that there is an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility inverse relationship between the amount of power one has and the amount of freedom to act independently]].
** Modern chess computers finally killed the the centuries long viewpoint that keeping pieces on the board and defended is more important than activity. While the 1920s style of "hyper modern" chess did develop a theory of "good" and "bad" bishops depending on them being blocked by their own pawns, the post-2010s computers finally ended the debate for good. These computers would rather kill the activity of an opponent by blocking pieces, gaining small but devastating long term positional advantage.
** The King's limited mobility in chess is often interpreted as being a weaker piece. Some assume that it refers to the fact that many historical kings were older, physically weaker men who were well past their battle years. A more modern interpretation suggests that this is symbolic of the fact that a king's power was not in what he could personally do, but in the influence and control that he had over others. A physically powerful man may be able to fight several enemies at once and win, but this does not necessarily translate into leadership, political, or strategic skills. A king pre-occupied with the governing of his kingdom, daily aspects of the StandardRoyalCourt, and the task of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition people pleasing]] is usually obligated to leave the fighting to the professionals. [[note]]Although a king can't be "fired" or "voted out of office" per se, a king can still be "removed" but it's often not a very pleasant aspect for the king in question[[/note]]. History has shown that there is an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility inverse relationship between the amount of power one has and the amount of freedom to act independently]].
** Modern chess computers finally killed the the centuries long viewpoint that keeping pieces on the board and defended is more important than activity. While the 1920s style of "hyper modern" chess did develop a theory of "good" and "bad" bishops depending on them being blocked by their own pawns, the post-2010s computers finally ended the debate for good. These computers would rather kill the activity of an opponent by blocking pieces, gaining small but devastating long term positional advantage.
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** The Queen queen is the most powerful chess piece, contrary to some, but not all historical queens. In Chess' chess's origin country in The the East, the Queen queen was actually a Vizier, vizier, an obviously male adviser who historically could act as a power behind a throne, [[EvilChancellor especially if the king is young or weak]]. However, in the equally patriarchal Europe, this piece became a queen queen, but it may represent political influence influence, as Queens queens acted as ambassadors and diplomats. The queen's power in chess may reflect either political influence or the actions of a Queen's queen's agents, spies, and personal guards. In the end, she is still acting on the orders of her king. More cynical schools of thought may see the queen's power in [[TheVamp seduction and sex]].
** TheKing's king's limited mobility in chess is often interpreted as being a weaker piece. Some assume that it refers to the fact that many historical kings were older, physically weaker men who were well past their battle years. A more modern interpretation suggests that this is symbolic of the fact that a king's power was not in what he could personally do, but in the influence and control that he had over others. A physically powerful man may be able to fight several enemies at once and win, but this does not necessarily translate into leadership, political, or strategic skills. A king pre-occupied with the governing of his kingdom, daily aspects of the StandardRoyalCourt, and the task of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition people pleasing]] is usually obligated to leave the fighting to the professionals. [[note]]Although a king can't be "fired" or "voted out of office" per se, a king can still be "removed" "removed", but it's often not a very pleasant aspect for the king in question[[/note]]. History has shown that there is an [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility inverse relationship between the amount of power one has and the amount of freedom to act independently]].
** Modern chess computers finally killed the thecenturies long centuries-long viewpoint that keeping pieces on the board and defended is more important than activity. While the 1920s style of "hyper modern" "hypermodern" chess did develop a theory of "good" and "bad" bishops depending on them being blocked by their own pawns, the post-2010s computers finally ended the debate for good. These computers would rather kill the activity of an opponent by blocking pieces, gaining a small but devastating long term long-term positional advantage.
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** The famous ''smothered mate'' where a single knight forces a king into a corner, surrounded by its own "protective" pieces who block out all escape squares, allowing this beautiful (and somewhat embarrassing) checkmate. There are countless other checkmates where the King's only escape(s) are blocked by its own pieces, the most common of which (among relative novices) is that of the King being mated by an opposing Queen or Rook on the back rank because he's hemmed in by the three pawns in front of him.
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** The famous ''smothered mate'' mate'', where a single knight forces a king into a corner, surrounded by its own "protective" pieces who block out all escape squares, allowing this beautiful (and somewhat embarrassing) checkmate. There are countless other checkmates where the King's king's only escape(s) are blocked by its own pieces, the most common of which (among relative novices) is that of the King king being mated by an opposing Queen queen or Rook rook on the back rank because he's hemmed in by the three pawns in front of him.
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* CharacterTiers: Called relative value. The key word is relative; each piece is worth, on average, a certain number of points but they can all vary according to the situation (open vs. closed game, midgame vs. endgame, etc.). These points are a marker of who's ahead in material and don't count at all for gameplay purposes. This isn't the only important indicator of who's winning (having a good position or control of the board can balance it out) and the player with weaker or fewer pieces sometimes wins; all the material advantage in the world won't save you from a SurpriseCheckmate.
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* CharacterTiers: Called relative value. The key word is relative; each piece is worth, on average, a certain number of points points, but they can all vary according to the situation (open vs. closed game, midgame middlegame vs. endgame, etc.). These points are a marker of who's ahead in material and don't count at all for gameplay purposes. This isn't the only important indicator of who's winning (having a good position or control of the board can balance it out) out a material disadvantage) and the player with weaker or fewer pieces sometimes wins; all the material advantage in the world won't save you from a SurpriseCheckmate.
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** ''High Tier'': The rooks are, along with the queen, considered the ''major pieces''. Worth 5 points each, it's generally bad to lose one of them in exchange for, say, a bishop. Two rooks are slightly better than a queen but to get that advantage you need to co-ordinate them well.
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** ''High Tier'': The rooks are, along with the queen, considered the ''major pieces''. Worth 5 points each, it's generally bad to lose one of them in exchange for, say, a bishop. Two rooks are slightly better than a queen queen, but to get that advantage advantage, you need to co-ordinate them well.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Just about any time chess is referred to or symbolized, you'll see the Knight.
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** Anish Giri drawing.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Giri is known to draw a lot, like when he went through the entire 2016 Candidates Tournament without a single decisive result. This led to jokes about him preferring draws over wins (or, occasionally, just being unable to win). Giri himself has posted a few self-deprecating tweets referencing his frequent draws.[[/labelnote]]
** Bongcloud Attack / 2. [=Ke2=][[labelnote:Explanation]]A terrible opening famous for its role in the satirical opening guide ''[[http://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1401479151063.pdf Winning With the Bongcloud]]''. People like to jokingly claim it's a GameBreaker.[[/labelnote]]
** Outstanding Move[[labelnote:Explanation]]A screenshot from the moment a presenter declares a move "outstanding" while using a chessboard diagram to re-enact a chess match. Now used as a reaction image to express a genuine or, in some cases, sarcastic response to a plan.[[/labelnote]]
** Resign when you're lost[[labelnote:Explanation]]This was supposedly (he probably said something like "sign in the box") said by Hikaru Nakamura after a game in which he achieved a winning position, but messed up and only got a draw out of it.[[/labelnote]]
** Botez Gambit[[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to Women's FIDE Master and Website/{{Twitch}} streamer Alexandra Botez, who has a habit of blundering away her Queen. For her part, Botez takes it in stride and [[SelfDeprecation isn't above making jokes about her name becoming synonymous with losing a queen]].[[/labelnote]]
** PIPI in your pampers[[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase from a [[https://i.imgur.com/H3bsuRl.jpg poorly-written rant]] posted by Tigran L. Petrosian after Wesley So accused him of cheating. The full thing is used as a copypasta.[[/labelnote]]
** The Tennison Gambit Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Variation[[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xNlzsnPCQ A bizarre chess "tutorial"]] from the equally bizarre ''WebSite/YouTube'' channel WebVideo/BosnianApeSociety, in which a text-to-speech Indian chess guru explains a variation of the Tennison Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.[=Nf3=]) that ends with White [[EverythingExplodesEnding launching an intercontinental ballistic missile into the other side of the board.]] The "real" version of this trap, where the black queen is captured by the "ICBM" (aka White's queen), quickly became a popular opening trap among newcomers to chess. [[/labelnote]]
** En passant[[labelnote:Explanation]]A move that is quite obscure, especially to self taught, entry level players, causing hilarious reactions when they first encounter it.[[/labelnote]]
*** Google en passant. Holy hell![[labelnote:Explanation]]A copypasta meme from reddit's Anarchy Chess shitposting sub-forum. It originated from a post in /r/chessbeginners where a user described an en passant capture and accused their opponent of cheating. Someone responded with "Google en passant" to explain what happened, and the original poster replied to it with "Holy hell".[[/labelnote]]
*** En passant is forced.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Another meme originating from reddit, where posters proclaim that any time en passant is possible, you are forced to do it. Which isn't true. Users create scenarios where a player gives up a checkmate because they are 'forced' to take the opponent's pawn, or where taking en passant will then lose the game. Has spread to wider chess twitter, youtube and streamers.[[/labelnote]]
*** The brick.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A combination of the "en passant is forced" meme and PIPI meme. It claims if you decline en passant, you will get a brick on your "pipi".[[/labelnote]]
** Bobby Fischer [[labelnote:Explanation]]Fischer is one of the greatest players of all time, but had irrational, paranoid, racist and misogynist tendances inherited from his mother that developed later in life into mental health illness. This contributed to his death after he refused treatment for a curable kidney infection. "Edgy" chess forums plumb these issues for humour.[[/labelnote]]
** Max Deutsch and his algorithm[[labelnote:Explanation]]Max was an "obsessive learner" who liked to take on monthly challenges, with the last one being the overambitious "beat World Champion Magnus Carlsen at chess after a month of practice". He used a weird strategy that revolved around trying to write a machine learning algorithm and memorize what it did (the latter part is completely unrealistic). To make matters worse, the algorithm hadn't even finished running before Max played Magnus and predictably got crushed. This led to Max being ridiculed by the chess community and eventually becoming a meme, with most mentions being jokes about (1) his algorithm running for an absurd amount of time, and/or (2) him actually becoming the best chess player ever once it finishes running.[[/labelnote]]
** Garry Chess & Chess 2 [[labelnote:Explanation]]The joke that Garry Kasparov invented Chess and that his name is actually "Garry Chess". Chess 2 is a hypothetical 'sequel' to Chess that is being created by Garry Chess, that can contain outlandish new rules & mechanics.[[/labelnote]]
** I literally don't care.[[labelnote:Explanation]]After Hikaru Nakamura lost a bullet game to Chessbrah by running out of time, Nakamura insisted that "I don’t even care" and "He can take that but I don’t care. I literally don’t care". There was some drama after that, which won't be recounted here because the important part is that the "I literally don't care" quote was memed as a result. Sometimes it's used as BlatantLies, and sometimes it's used to portray Nakamura as a really carefree player.[[/labelnote]]
** Chess, when played perfectly, always ends in a draw. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote often used sarcastically to describe games between low-rated players that end in a draw (usually via only having two kings left or other insufficient material scenarios, or a player blundering a stalemate from a winning position).[[/labelnote]]
** Anal beads.[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 9th Sinquefield Cup, Grandmaster Hans Niemann defeated World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning upset, followed by Magnus withdrawing from the tournament and posting a cryptic tweet with a video of José Mourinho saying, "If I speak I am in big trouble". This led to a lot of speculation about why Magnus withdrew and whether Hans was cheating. Eventually someone posted a joke theory that Hans was using anal beads that vibrated to give him information. The joke caught on thanks to its absurdity, spread outside the chess community in part because Elon Musk tweeted about it, and even broke into mainstream media (some of which treated it as a legitimate rumour.)[[/labelnote]]
*** Magnus cheats.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A derived copypasta that ups the absurdity by claiming that Magnus has always used the anal beads, and withdrew after finding out that Hans stole his design.[[/labelnote]]
** Chess speaks for itself.[[labelnote:Explanation]]After a game where Hans Niemann unexpectedly beat Magnus Carlsen, this comment was Niemann's only statement in the post-game interview. The phrase rose to prominence after Niemann beat Carlsen again in a later tournament, causing Carlsen to start a scandal by dropping out and insinuating that he thought Niemann was cheating. Niemann himself leaned into the meme, at one point saying "the lawsuit speaks for himself" after suing his accusers.[[/labelnote]]
** Oh no, my queen.[[labelnote:Explanation]]IM Eric Rosen is known for setting traps during his streams where [[SchmuckBait he appears to blunder a piece while setting up sneaky checkmates]]. He'll usually announce this by sarcastically saying that he's about to lose the piece in question; as a result, this caught on with players as a way to describe piece sacrifices.[[/labelnote]]
** When you see mate in one, look for better.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A play on the chess adage "When you see a good move, look for a better one." The joke here is that mate in one (that is, a move which immediately checkmates the opponent) is ''the'' best move you can possibly play, so someone that "looks for better" actually just missed the opportunity to win.[[/labelnote]]
** My king can't move to c2, why?[[labelnote:Explanation]]One newbie player (who had apparently been viewing a previous move and didn't understand how they couldn't have affected it) asked for help with this. It's since become a running gag that the king just can't move to c2.[[/labelnote]]
** Knook[[labelnote:Explanation]]A hybrid of a knight and rook created for /r/anarchychess to confound its board analysis bot, and has been adopted as a mascot. Its movement is apparently in the L-shape of a knight, but extending one of the "arms" of the L for as many spaces as you want.[[/labelnote]]
** Mittens[[labelnote:Explanation]]A January 2023 chess bot that appears to be a CuteKitten with 1 ELO (skill level). This is false information, for Mittens has an actual ELO well into the 3500s and will ''[[CurbStompBattle wipe the floor]]'' with most seasoned players. A lot of its quotes imply that it's a transcendent being. When it was removed in February 2023, many players expressed their sentiments.[[/labelnote]]
** Martin[[labelnote:Explanation]]Designed for beginners, Martin is the worst bot on chess.com, making obvious blunders on the regular. Players seeking a SelfImposedChallenge will often give Martin a huge advantage, while commentators either dunk on how bad the bot is, or on the flipside, praise him as a MemeticBadass.[[/labelnote]]
** Bongcloud[[labelnote:Explanation]]A FanNickname for moving the king forward on the second move. This play is really bad, as it hinders development for the queen and bishop, makes the king vulnerable, and voids the right to castle.[[/labelnote]]
** Joke puzzles[[labelnote:Explanation]]There exists chess puzzles that primarily exist for humor, such as those with only one legal move, or using [[LoopholeAbuse slant interpretations of the rules.]][[/labelnote]]
** Anish Giri drawing.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Giri is known to draw a lot, like when he went through the entire 2016 Candidates Tournament without a single decisive result. This led to jokes about him preferring draws over wins (or, occasionally, just being unable to win). Giri himself has posted a few self-deprecating tweets referencing his frequent draws.[[/labelnote]]
** Bongcloud Attack / 2. [=Ke2=][[labelnote:Explanation]]A terrible opening famous for its role in the satirical opening guide ''[[http://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1401479151063.pdf Winning With the Bongcloud]]''. People like to jokingly claim it's a GameBreaker.[[/labelnote]]
** Outstanding Move[[labelnote:Explanation]]A screenshot from the moment a presenter declares a move "outstanding" while using a chessboard diagram to re-enact a chess match. Now used as a reaction image to express a genuine or, in some cases, sarcastic response to a plan.[[/labelnote]]
** Resign when you're lost[[labelnote:Explanation]]This was supposedly (he probably said something like "sign in the box") said by Hikaru Nakamura after a game in which he achieved a winning position, but messed up and only got a draw out of it.[[/labelnote]]
** Botez Gambit[[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to Women's FIDE Master and Website/{{Twitch}} streamer Alexandra Botez, who has a habit of blundering away her Queen. For her part, Botez takes it in stride and [[SelfDeprecation isn't above making jokes about her name becoming synonymous with losing a queen]].[[/labelnote]]
** PIPI in your pampers[[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase from a [[https://i.imgur.com/H3bsuRl.jpg poorly-written rant]] posted by Tigran L. Petrosian after Wesley So accused him of cheating. The full thing is used as a copypasta.[[/labelnote]]
** The Tennison Gambit Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Variation[[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xNlzsnPCQ A bizarre chess "tutorial"]] from the equally bizarre ''WebSite/YouTube'' channel WebVideo/BosnianApeSociety, in which a text-to-speech Indian chess guru explains a variation of the Tennison Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.[=Nf3=]) that ends with White [[EverythingExplodesEnding launching an intercontinental ballistic missile into the other side of the board.]] The "real" version of this trap, where the black queen is captured by the "ICBM" (aka White's queen), quickly became a popular opening trap among newcomers to chess. [[/labelnote]]
** En passant[[labelnote:Explanation]]A move that is quite obscure, especially to self taught, entry level players, causing hilarious reactions when they first encounter it.[[/labelnote]]
*** Google en passant. Holy hell![[labelnote:Explanation]]A copypasta meme from reddit's Anarchy Chess shitposting sub-forum. It originated from a post in /r/chessbeginners where a user described an en passant capture and accused their opponent of cheating. Someone responded with "Google en passant" to explain what happened, and the original poster replied to it with "Holy hell".[[/labelnote]]
*** En passant is forced.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Another meme originating from reddit, where posters proclaim that any time en passant is possible, you are forced to do it. Which isn't true. Users create scenarios where a player gives up a checkmate because they are 'forced' to take the opponent's pawn, or where taking en passant will then lose the game. Has spread to wider chess twitter, youtube and streamers.[[/labelnote]]
*** The brick.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A combination of the "en passant is forced" meme and PIPI meme. It claims if you decline en passant, you will get a brick on your "pipi".[[/labelnote]]
** Bobby Fischer [[labelnote:Explanation]]Fischer is one of the greatest players of all time, but had irrational, paranoid, racist and misogynist tendances inherited from his mother that developed later in life into mental health illness. This contributed to his death after he refused treatment for a curable kidney infection. "Edgy" chess forums plumb these issues for humour.[[/labelnote]]
** Max Deutsch and his algorithm[[labelnote:Explanation]]Max was an "obsessive learner" who liked to take on monthly challenges, with the last one being the overambitious "beat World Champion Magnus Carlsen at chess after a month of practice". He used a weird strategy that revolved around trying to write a machine learning algorithm and memorize what it did (the latter part is completely unrealistic). To make matters worse, the algorithm hadn't even finished running before Max played Magnus and predictably got crushed. This led to Max being ridiculed by the chess community and eventually becoming a meme, with most mentions being jokes about (1) his algorithm running for an absurd amount of time, and/or (2) him actually becoming the best chess player ever once it finishes running.[[/labelnote]]
** Garry Chess & Chess 2 [[labelnote:Explanation]]The joke that Garry Kasparov invented Chess and that his name is actually "Garry Chess". Chess 2 is a hypothetical 'sequel' to Chess that is being created by Garry Chess, that can contain outlandish new rules & mechanics.[[/labelnote]]
** I literally don't care.[[labelnote:Explanation]]After Hikaru Nakamura lost a bullet game to Chessbrah by running out of time, Nakamura insisted that "I don’t even care" and "He can take that but I don’t care. I literally don’t care". There was some drama after that, which won't be recounted here because the important part is that the "I literally don't care" quote was memed as a result. Sometimes it's used as BlatantLies, and sometimes it's used to portray Nakamura as a really carefree player.[[/labelnote]]
** Chess, when played perfectly, always ends in a draw. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote often used sarcastically to describe games between low-rated players that end in a draw (usually via only having two kings left or other insufficient material scenarios, or a player blundering a stalemate from a winning position).[[/labelnote]]
** Anal beads.[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 9th Sinquefield Cup, Grandmaster Hans Niemann defeated World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning upset, followed by Magnus withdrawing from the tournament and posting a cryptic tweet with a video of José Mourinho saying, "If I speak I am in big trouble". This led to a lot of speculation about why Magnus withdrew and whether Hans was cheating. Eventually someone posted a joke theory that Hans was using anal beads that vibrated to give him information. The joke caught on thanks to its absurdity, spread outside the chess community in part because Elon Musk tweeted about it, and even broke into mainstream media (some of which treated it as a legitimate rumour.)[[/labelnote]]
*** Magnus cheats.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A derived copypasta that ups the absurdity by claiming that Magnus has always used the anal beads, and withdrew after finding out that Hans stole his design.[[/labelnote]]
** Chess speaks for itself.[[labelnote:Explanation]]After a game where Hans Niemann unexpectedly beat Magnus Carlsen, this comment was Niemann's only statement in the post-game interview. The phrase rose to prominence after Niemann beat Carlsen again in a later tournament, causing Carlsen to start a scandal by dropping out and insinuating that he thought Niemann was cheating. Niemann himself leaned into the meme, at one point saying "the lawsuit speaks for himself" after suing his accusers.[[/labelnote]]
** Oh no, my queen.[[labelnote:Explanation]]IM Eric Rosen is known for setting traps during his streams where [[SchmuckBait he appears to blunder a piece while setting up sneaky checkmates]]. He'll usually announce this by sarcastically saying that he's about to lose the piece in question; as a result, this caught on with players as a way to describe piece sacrifices.[[/labelnote]]
** When you see mate in one, look for better.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A play on the chess adage "When you see a good move, look for a better one." The joke here is that mate in one (that is, a move which immediately checkmates the opponent) is ''the'' best move you can possibly play, so someone that "looks for better" actually just missed the opportunity to win.[[/labelnote]]
** My king can't move to c2, why?[[labelnote:Explanation]]One newbie player (who had apparently been viewing a previous move and didn't understand how they couldn't have affected it) asked for help with this. It's since become a running gag that the king just can't move to c2.[[/labelnote]]
** Knook[[labelnote:Explanation]]A hybrid of a knight and rook created for /r/anarchychess to confound its board analysis bot, and has been adopted as a mascot. Its movement is apparently in the L-shape of a knight, but extending one of the "arms" of the L for as many spaces as you want.[[/labelnote]]
** Mittens[[labelnote:Explanation]]A January 2023 chess bot that appears to be a CuteKitten with 1 ELO (skill level). This is false information, for Mittens has an actual ELO well into the 3500s and will ''[[CurbStompBattle wipe the floor]]'' with most seasoned players. A lot of its quotes imply that it's a transcendent being. When it was removed in February 2023, many players expressed their sentiments.[[/labelnote]]
** Martin[[labelnote:Explanation]]Designed for beginners, Martin is the worst bot on chess.com, making obvious blunders on the regular. Players seeking a SelfImposedChallenge will often give Martin a huge advantage, while commentators either dunk on how bad the bot is, or on the flipside, praise him as a MemeticBadass.[[/labelnote]]
** Bongcloud[[labelnote:Explanation]]A FanNickname for moving the king forward on the second move. This play is really bad, as it hinders development for the queen and bishop, makes the king vulnerable, and voids the right to castle.[[/labelnote]]
** Joke puzzles[[labelnote:Explanation]]There exists chess puzzles that primarily exist for humor, such as those with only one legal move, or using [[LoopholeAbuse slant interpretations of the rules.]][[/labelnote]]
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** Bongcloud[[labelnote:Explanation]]A FanNickname for moving the king forward on the second move. This play is really bad, as it hinders development for the queen and bishop, makes the king vulnerable, and voids the right to castle.[[/labelnote]]
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