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Despot Chess consists of a custom set of figures, modelled on your choice of famous despots from a comprehensive list.
The main focus is on contemporary despots, such as Idi Amin, Stalin, Trump, Mussolini, Hitler (of course) but the range has been extended to include other figures of notoriety, like
Charles Manson, and the Kray Twins. (perfect as Bishops)
The game itself is played with the exact same set of rules, as there is enough variety obtainable in advancing, for example, the brainless Trump pieces (as scowling low value pawns) to act as cannon fodder towards Putin (as the all powerful White Queen)
No two sets are alike, as from a library of 32 pieces, an almost infinite variety of game set permuations is possible. Rapid 3D printing technology makes the project viable without being cost prohibitive.
Look forward to Stalin cornering Capone, with support from two Gaddafi Rooks, as a line of Goebbel Pawns blocks his escape.
Hitler vs. Roosevelt
https://www.regency...talfama-p-1309.html
[kdf, Jan 03 2021]
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“I believe you find life such a problem because you
think there are good people and bad people. You're
wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the
bad people, but some of them are on opposite
sides.”
-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! |
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With that quote, I bring to your attention one of
many “historical figure” chess sets ... Hitler vs
Roosevelt. |
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Are you going for the DSHWMH high score? |
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That depends on your definition of "High" in this context. |
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Do you mean "most mentions of Adolf in posted ideas", or "shortest interval between mentions of Adolf" (which given the timestamping issues as discussed at length elsewhere can never be less than 1 day), or some other metric ? |
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As to the idea itself, [+]. It could also be used for serial killer chess sets. |
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Maybe you could make a chess set where all the black pieces look like versions of George Floyd, and all the white ones look like police officers ... |
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[8th of 7]; that sounds more like Fox & Geese (which I thought was
played on a chess board, but is actually on a Solitaire board) but the
geese chase the fox. |
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“All the black pieces look like George
Floyd...white ones like police officers”
—8th of
7, Oct 11 2020 |
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You shouldn’t make all of the black pieces look
alike. And likewise, the white ones should look
like specific, not generic, police officers ... |
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George Floyd — Derek Chauvin
Ahmaud Arbery — Travis McMichael*
Tamir Rice — Timothy Loehmann
Michael Brown — Darren Wilson
Breonna Taylor — Brett Hankison
Jacob Blake — Rusten Sheskey
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... and so on. You can use generic designs for the
pawns, if you run out of cases noteworthy enough
to make the news**. Not bloody likely though. |
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* Not a police officer, a racist vigilante |
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** Not that the ones who DON’T make the news
don’t matter, but how else would you get their
names and likenesses for your chess set? |
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That's OK, even if you seem to have lost, you can always try the Supreme Court, or claim fraud, or get your supporters to riot .. |
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... or indeed all of the above. Just as long as you're not a sore* loser. |
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*You can get ointment for that now. |
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I didn't say I think he won. But he's not and never was the devil. I thought the election would see an end to the griping about him, but now I perceive we'll be hearing about Trump for the next 4 to 8 years as everything Biden/Harris fails at is blamed on him. I don't even like Trump. But I was really, really hoping for end to the biased drivel. |
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// I was really, really hoping for end to the biased drivel. // |
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Maybe you should try to rein in your aspirations a little, and just hope for something more attainable, like World Peace, or an end to hunger, or a reactionless FTL spacedrive ... |
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“...reactionless FTL spacedrive”
—8th of 7, Jan
03 2020 |
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Easy-peasy. And it has the added benefit that any
FTL drive is, by definition, also a time machine.
But even that won’t end despotism. Have you read
Smallworld and Littlestar yet? |
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Place a spaceship above earth, stationary relative to, and it will move without any reaction mass. |
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“Place a spaceship above earth”
—Voice, Jan
03 2021 |
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Some shortcomings in that explanation though.
Missing explanation how to get it UP there w/o
expending reaction force. And once you let go of
it, it will fall - but much short of light speed. |
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Maybe getting people to stop yammering about
politics WOULD be easier. |
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Voice, maybe you can arrange it so we can quit
hearing From him? |
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