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Suspended them, removed the example.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Wow, that's genuinely nonsensical. Even for that page. Which is saying a lot.
Weren't we discussing removing these tropes, though? Because seriously, they're cute but they invite some wild shoehorns.
EDIT: Yes, here
. I agree with Past-Larkmarn... moving the examples that don't actually pertain to the rules and treat Chess like an epic narrative to a Just for Fun page. Because even accepting examples like Action Girl for the Queen, there are some amazing shoehorns (Critical Existence Failure and Glass Cannon are nonsense, Deliberately Monochrome is "well, it sort of fits the trope name but not the trope in the slightest" and it goes on and on).
Additionally, there are a lot of examples that simply have to go. Many of them aren't about the game itself, but about the players, which is just troping real life. For example, the examples for Broken Pedestal, Child Prodigy, and probably countless others just plain have no place on a TV Tropes page.
Edited by Larkmarn Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Yes, the chess page is a real mess. I'm inclined to think that an abstract game such as chess shouldn't be treated as a work: there's simply no story to trope. There's just the narratives we make up about chess and the real people playing it; but the first should be troped as separate works and the second shouldn't be troped at all. Chess would be more fitting for a Useful Note than a Work page. But that's a matter for TRS.
I concur with starting a TRS to move Chess to Useful Notes. The game itself is not a work as we define it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Chess should definitely have a page. It may not have a defined narrative, but it does have gameplay, aesthetic elements, a metagame, and as much validity as any of the other Tabletop Games on this Wiki.
I agree that it needs clean-up (especially on the Characters sub-page,) but moving or cutting the page is far too drastic as the first measure in the face of an improvable page.

Recently, troper Omeganian added this example to Chess:
I deleted this with the edit reason: "What has this to do with New Media Are Evil?", my reasoning being that chess is neither a medium nor a technology, least of all what they call a "New Medium". I also observe that the bold historical claim made by the example (that the game of chess was once opposed because it allows for a pawn to defeat a king) lacks any sort of sourcing.
Shortly after, Omeganian re-added the example, edit reason: "You think this trope is supposed to make sense? Wish I had your optimism...".
As this is not an argument for the inclusion of the example, or a reply to my edit reason for deletion, and as Omeganian did not react to a PM, I'm asking the mods to rule on the issue.
Edited by LordGro