- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25112863
Source unknown, some sites assign it to Oppressive Silence comics by Ethan Vincent. But that website in the corner is shady
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Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.
(Edit: it’s a joke. Stalemate/stale content…I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)
You got 3 posts, no complaining.
Oh I wasn’t complaining, I was making a bad joke (the cartoon is a stalemate).
Wait. What rule?
Post before you leave
Stupidest rule in chess.
It almost never happens randomly, it has to be forced by the losing player and it’s not easy to do it so I think it’s a valid way of saving the game.
Why
Without the stalemate rule then there’s not much any point in continuing to play once you’re in a poor enough position. You’d literally be wasting both players times waiting in vain for your opponent to irrecoverably blunder hard enough to turn the match, which may be impossible if you’re out of enough pieces.
With the stalemate rule although you may no longer be able to win, you can still do something so your final outcome is better than a loss. The losing player still has a reason to keep playing. The game is overall more interesting to play and watch by having the stalemate rule than it would be without.
I don’t agree. I think the game is more interesting if it’s a new game after the other won
Ratings matter, though. A stalemate means your rating doesn’t decrease as much as it would have if you’d lost, and you get to take some of your opponent’s rating in the process.
Yes, and a stalemate is not good gameplay. Rating for the stake of finding out who is best as a competition often means sacrificing some of the fun because the rules would be abused. I don’t have to change what I think is most fun due to any of those things, and downvoting or explaining why does also not change my opinion. If that is what you want, then explain to me the fun part of spending end game trying to abuse stalemate, and avoiding stalemate versus playing the rest of the game. If the rest is more fun, it’s obvious why most give up in this game unless it is a tourney. Because this rule is just not good gameplay in terms of fun and enjoyment. I just think there could be other solutions.
The first part of your comment doesn’t justify the second part. But it also isn’t true that it rarely happens randomly. It rarely happens randomly in high-ranked games. Bad rules like stalemate have a much stronger effect on low ranked games, which is what most people play.
Stalemates and forcing draws are pretty important imo as someone who dosen’t play and only watch. It’s gave the game a twist that let the losing player a way to fight back from a loosing position to a draw (that feels like a win).
I can understand that if you don’t play the fucking game you don’t mind the trapped safe king.
