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Tarren Dei wrote:King Jack perhaps?Callous Jack wrote:King me!But then you wouldn't be a Jack; you'd be a King.
The King? Wouldn't you rather be the Queen, Jack? After all, in chess king's are fat, lazy pieces that think they're important but contribute nothing of real value ...
NVM. King Jack it is.

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Tarren Dei wrote:The King? Wouldn't you rather be the Queen, Jack? After all, in chess king's are fat, lazy pieces that think they're important but contribute nothing of real value ...
NVM. King Jack it is.Shouldn't you be defending women's rights and feelings in some distant blog somewhere?
I think you're misremembering that exchange. I was defending Paizo in that distant blog and I schooled that boy. He bowed to my superior gender-theory-fu. Now, let's get back to insulting Callous Jack, shall we?

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You missed my subtle and yet insulting comparison between you and said distant blogger.
Can we pick on Canadians instead?
Nah, I've sworn off political threads. They make my stomach hurt. I will not participate in any thread that focusses its attention on insulting a group of people. Now, insulting individuals--such as Callous Jack--that's okay.

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C4, sapper takes rook
BOOM!!!!
Rook saves (1d20+4=21) for half damage. Bishop casts summon pawnstorm.

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Kriegspiel Chess
Rules
Kriegspiel is a battle between two players. However, a third person is necessary to act as a referee.
One needs three boards for the game. The main idea of Kriegspiel is that players only get to see their own pieces, but do not see the pieces of their opponent, and do not know what moves the opponent has made - they only have some partial information (see below) that allows them to guess where the opponents’ pieces are. Only the referee knows exactly the real position of both sets of pieces.
Players move turn-wise, just as in normal chess. Each turn, a player attempts a move. When this move is legal, the referee announces that the player has moved, and the turn is done. When the move is not legal, the referee also announces that the player attempted an illegal move, and the player must make a new attempt to move, until he makes a legal move.
All announcements by the referee are heard by both players.
When a move gives check, the referee announces this, and also announces the direction in which check is given: either on the row, on the column, on the small diagonal, on the large diagonal, or by a knight. However, the place of the checking piece is not told (but sometimes can be guessed or deduced correctly.)
When a piece captures another piece, the referee announces this, and also the field where the capture has taken place. For instance, the referee could announce: White has captured on d3. The referee does not announce with which type of piece the capture has been taken place, or which type of piece is taken. There is one exception to this latter rule, namely en-passant capture is announced, for instance, the referee could announce: Black has taken en-passant on f3.
To avoid that players have to make long series of wrong guesses of pawn captures each turn, a player may ask: Are their any pawn captures?, usually abbreviated to Any?. The referee either answers “No!”, if the player cannot capture a piece with a pawn, or “Try!”, if there are one or more possible capturing moves with a pawn of the player. In the latter case, the player must make at least one attempt to capture with a pawn (if unsuccessful, the player may continue such attempts or attempt other moves at will).
In case that a player makes moves of which he knows that are illegal (for instance, asking Any when he has no pawns left), (which he might do to confuse the opponent; this is considered ‘bad manners’), the referee says Impossible, such that the opponent is not confused by this.

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Any Paizonians rated Masters?
Any (other) Class A Players...?
-W. E. Ray,
(1865 last performance rating, "little fish")
It's been over 20 years since I was rated (Chess Club in high school). 1300-1400 IIRC (not even close to Master or Class A). I was at the point where improvement would have required memorizing openings and variants, but I wasn't that interested.
In college, I did meet someone who was a rated Master (and studying to improve his ranking while getting a degree in Computer Science).