Anonymous ID: a36514 May 24, 2025, 4:19 a.m. No.23076418   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>23076164

Doesn't matter. Whether you were right or wrong, you were trying to think for yourself, following some liars perhaps, but its on the liars, not those who can merely strive for discernment.

as for the rest, they're still just following the approved narrative.

Anonymous ID: a36514 May 24, 2025, 5:14 a.m. No.23076523   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>23074484 /pb

>🥳 Congratulations to Russian chess legend Anatoly #Karpov who turns 7️4️ today.

7, 4=7D, white bishop, your move

 

Explanation of the Il Vaticano rules for beginners

Copied from the FIDE handbook. When is Il Vaticano valid?

 

Provided that two bishops:

 

(i) of the same player

 

(ii) on squares of differing colour

 

(iii) on the same rank or the same file

 

(iv) are two squares apart

 

(v) with both in-between squares occupied by enemy pieces,

 

(Reasoning: both bishops must kill one each, else one would have blackmail over the other.)

 

then Il Vaticano is a forced move, in which the bishops swap places and capture both pieces on the two in-between squares, except as follows.

 

If the King is one of the pieces in-between the bishops, Il Vaticano is not a valid or forced move, nor is the king placed in check as a result.

 

(Reasoning: this is a political statement; the Church has no supremacy over the King. While it is possible to play otherwise, the United Kingdom would swiftly declare war on FIDE if they declared it so.)