• seeigel@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    It’s all wrong.

    Putin’s white queen doesn’t stand on a white field. Are Putin’s pieces black in disguise?

    But Trump isn’t white either because his field for the queen is also not white.

    They play a game that looks like chess, but it is something else.

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        10 hours ago

        When you set up a chess board, the rule is “white to the right”. The bottom right square should always be white, then moving inwards, Rook, Knight, Bishop, King/Queen. The queen is fashionable, her dress always matches her shoes, so the queen always starts on the square that matches her color.

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            11 hours ago

            This made me realise there is an error after all - the corner field where Putin’s closer rook is is supposed to be black.

            So the queen is on the wrong field. The whole chessboard is mirrored.

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            11 hours ago

            Yes, correct. And the field should be d, the fourth field from the left.

            The orientation of the board is wrong.

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              11 hours ago

              Oh, right! The left-hand corner should be black for both players. I.e. they’re playing sideways on the board.