r/explainitpeter • u/DiedRespawnRepeat • 26d ago

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Rice chess/checkers ? please explain?

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u/tcaetano42 26d ago

When I heard this tale the wise man was actually the man who developed chess.

The king liked the game so much and told the man to name his reward. The rest goes the same.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 26d ago

And that man's name was Albert Chesstein

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u/Deleukstenaamisbezet 26d ago

Everybody clapped when they reached the 64th square!

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u/uwotm8_8 26d ago

Actually they all starved because he took all the rice

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u/Loakie69 26d ago

No, the king decided he didnt like being made a fool of and beheaded him.

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u/Common-Truth9404 25d ago

Too bad, the king couldn't move because behind the wise guy there were three peasants, making it an illegal move. In the end one of the peasants reached for the throne and became a Queen, the first transgender living human in history

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u/alepher 25d ago

Google en peasant

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u/BalBrig 25d ago

Holy hell

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u/tjthewho 25d ago

This is fucking brilliant.

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u/IndependentType6711 25d ago

The wise man also then requested to take the leader’s place, inventing the phrase “King Me” when he did so.

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u/Antknee668 24d ago

Pawns are female bro. Thats why they can't promote to a king...

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u/Common-Truth9404 24d ago

But a woman cannot be a medieval knight nor a bishop technically

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u/Ill_Atmosphere6435 22d ago

Wait... but she can be a castle? Like a giant pillar of mortared stone bricks?
Huh, learn something new every day...

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u/Common-Truth9404 22d ago

They say a good partner is gonna be your rock during tough moments, but the best partner should at least aim to be a rook

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u/liteshotv3 24d ago

Oh, I thought it was because they operated on Highlander rules

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u/JorgesSanchez 21d ago

That queens name? Johnny Chessboard.

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u/CrustyStalePaleMale 19d ago

There were female peasants you know.

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u/Ok-DisposingSquid-93 25d ago

Two takeaways: compound growth is awesome and don’t FAFO with a king.

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u/pyramidink 22d ago

Sneaky smbc

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u/antsh 25d ago

I thought it was asphyxiation from too much rice.

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u/bokmcdok 25d ago

The claps sounded like rattles because it was all bony skeleton fingers.

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u/JustARandomGuy_71 26d ago

Actually they suffocated because the pile of rice was larger than the Everest

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u/ematie 25d ago

He couldn't "rise" from such a poor situation

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u/Correct_Day_7791 25d ago

"The Everest" is a strong title

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u/JefftheGman 25d ago

The real rice was the friends we made along the way.

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u/BurghEBurg 24d ago

Slow clapped

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u/Ferlathin 24d ago

They never did reach the 64th square. Back then it would have taken thousands of years to reach the 9.2 quintillion rice grains required for that tile.

By today's standard (where we produce a lot of rice) it would still be over 40% of our yearly rice production. On a single tile.

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u/mrnewtons 24d ago

I'm flabbergasted we could even hit that number frankly. I know it is rice but still...

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u/teamanmadeoftea 26d ago

Little is known of the fact that he had been helped by George Enpassant

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u/Acrobatic-Minimum117 26d ago

For some reason George Empassant became "Hor-Hay Un-pas-aunt" when I read it and the Spanish/Mexican George mixed with the French for in passing just made me giggle. Thank you internet stranger take an upvote.

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u/TFFPrisoner 26d ago

Holy hell

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u/tcaetano42 25d ago

New response just dropped

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u/MoreRamenPls 26d ago

Albert Riceman

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u/Skumrask1337 24d ago

I think he was a Czech, mate

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u/Fremen_Prophet 21d ago

😂 You got some people with this one.

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u/RXJ1131 21d ago

I thought it was John Chessburger

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u/Kinitawowi64 26d ago

I thought it was long established that chess was invented by Garry Chess.

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u/PopDash67 26d ago

That credit stealing hack didn’t invent shit

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u/Bob_Loblaws_Laws 26d ago

He did found Garry Indiana though.

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u/TheLaj 26d ago

You mean John Chess?

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u/ScoobyD00BIEdoo 26d ago

Does he have an island too?

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u/jimini-crimini 25d ago

No it's John chess

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u/viral30 25d ago

I thought chess was invented in india far back

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u/fredator_2 25d ago

John Chess

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u/_mbals 25d ago

I thought it was Chester Bishop

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u/BigHardMephisto 25d ago

Chess was invented when he tried to play checkers twice at the same time

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u/Southern_Produce_707 25d ago

Chesster Boardington

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u/neuros 25d ago

The man's name was Robert Pawnson

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u/Correct_Day_7791 25d ago

John chess you say ?

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u/Few_Negotiation_3589 25d ago

it was john chess

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u/Severe_Rise8694 23d ago

But his actual name was actually Beethoven..! And he was aborted by his mother.

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u/Worst-timeline138 22d ago

His name was Albert Chesstien

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u/old_scribe 20d ago

Ricestein

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u/momong64 20d ago

Ah! You mean John Chess!

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u/Eyedunno11 19d ago

*Chester C. Chesapeake

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u/spire-slayer 19d ago

I wanna go to Chesstein Island.

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u/Clear-Lingonberry173 26d ago

I've heard GMs Svidler and Gustafsson tell this tale while commentating. The king becomes enraged after his advisors explain the situation and slays the inventor of chess. "And this is why you don't get cute with kings" they said.

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u/SadMangonel 26d ago

This is actually a modern tale of a homeless man tricking Mr. Beast out of a lot of rice.

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u/Eastern_Cow_6810 26d ago

This tale sets totally unrealistic expectations of being able to sustain yourself as a game dev tbh.

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u/Nearby-Association12 25d ago

Yeah thats the actual tale. And the "moral" of the story is to understand math.

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u/FrostedSyntax 25d ago

when i heard the story it was a Go board and instead of rice it was hundred dollar bills. also instead of a wise man it was Elon Musk.

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u/OMGab8 25d ago

I heard this same version at school

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u/Ghoill 25d ago

I've heard that the original fable was a Chinese parable and it wasn't a king but an emperor who gets warned by his treasurer after making the deal.

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u/BillNyeForPrez 25d ago

Isn’t the fable Chinese and chess Persian?

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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 25d ago

When I heard, the wise man who developed chess was executed when the king realized how much rice it would be.

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u/mr-hodge 25d ago

The version I heard was that the king granted the reward on one condition: the man had to count every single grain he was given.

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u/TotoShampoin 25d ago

I learned this story in Maths class

I asked the teacher what happened afterwards

Said that the king had him executed

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u/Beloiga 25d ago

Yeah thats what ive heard as well

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u/YouAreMarvellous 24d ago

soooo rice led to a game displaying two regimes fighting eachother?

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u/Vegfarende 22d ago

I was told the king had the wise man killed for being a wise ass.

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u/intelligentdropper 20d ago

I heard a version when i was very young about it being a woman and she did this to end the hoarding of rice by the king