I-was-saying “the baron is playing chess; he must be a lazy, shiftless bum”

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I think we’ll keep going with things that sound like what a 1780s aristocrat might say, anyone who knows chess will catch on to the bit when they notice.were just naming chess pieces and letters and numbers at random. Here’s some others we’ve made up:

    The Brussels Wager

    The Haliburton Exit (mine, I thought it was clever)

    The Barcelona Maneuver

    The Antwerp Flank

    The Dreaded Parallel Strategem of the Swiss

    The Buckaneer Open

    The Proto Indo European Midgame Meta