More Fitting Names for Chess Pieces
New names for chess pieces based on how they move: valued employee, tourist, fratboy, brown noser, queen and baby.
Content note: 'Drunken' fratboy.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-01-01-more-fitting-names-for-chess-pieces/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Pawn → Valued Employee: "marches forward, serving someone else's strategic designs, facing likely death on the unlikely promise of a promotion" · Bishop → Tourist: "moves freely, but only to squares identical to its home" · Knight → Fratboy: "staggers in a drunken L shape while wearing a horse mask" · Rook → Brown Noser: "moves along rank and file; executes special maneuver to protect its superior" · Queen → Queen: "most powerful piece; radiates influence in every direction" · King → Baby: "weak and vulnerable, takes short and bumbling steps, constantly relying on other pieces to keep it safe"