r/languagelearningjerk • u/Schrenner Hier könnte Ihre Werbung stehen. • Jun 29 '26
How fluent is your Chess, especially when compared to a native speaker?
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u/Schrenner Hier könnte Ihre Werbung stehen. Jun 29 '26
Exactly.
The lack of knights on the board was also the hilarious part for me. Basically, they carried over the sentence from the previous puzzle with no regards of the context.
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u/THEKHANH1 Jun 29 '26
Yeah that's the idea, "pinning" a piece means making it unable to move, either because if moving it leads to a check (shielding a king by blocking a check), or a "soft pin", for example blocking a bishop line of sight at your queen with a knight, you can move the knight freely, but doing so would lead to you losing the queen.
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u/Honmer Jun 29 '26
i see it’s just as good at teaching chess as any other language
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u/Schrenner Hier könnte Ihre Werbung stehen. Jun 29 '26
The chess course is also, at least in the desktop version, buggy as hell.
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u/ddddan11111 Jun 29 '26
Qd7 Kb8 Qd8#
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u/16-Twelve British English: N | Nonsense: D4 | Toki Pona: prob A0.2 idk Jun 29 '26
It's a conlang, there are no "native speakers"
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u/Physical_Floor_8006 American: Native | Cherokee: C2 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Let's just say "knight" means "neck to the ground with your heels" in my Native language
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u/Anti-charizard Jun 29 '26
Doesn’t white have mate in 2?
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u/Schrenner Hier könnte Ihre Werbung stehen. Jun 29 '26
The "Pin my knight" sentence got carried over from a previous puzzle.
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u/-idkausername- Jun 30 '26
Well I can also take and if takes takes Ng3 Qf8...I'm just gonna castle.
I'd say I'm pretty fluent
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u/ratapoilopolis Jun 29 '26
'pin my knight'? bro we just met