How To Castle On Game Pigeon Chess

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To castle queenside, move your king two spaces left, toward the rook on that side, replacing the original position of the bishop on that side, which must be elsewhere. Castling is a king move. If you're playing with touch move you'll have to touch the king first or you'll have to make a rook move. In chess, in order for a position to be considered the same, each player must have the same set of legal moves each time, including the possible rights to castle and capture en passant. Since the rights to capture en passant or castle can possibly vanish, this means that positions that look exactly the same, might not be for the purpose of this. How to play chess: Castling. If you haven't yet moved your king and rook, you have the option of making a special move called castling. Because the king is such a valuable piece, we often want to hide him away in the corner where the opponent can't get at him. What is castling? Castling is a special type of chess move. When castling, you simultaneously move your king and one of your rooks. The king moves two squares towards a rook, and that rook moves to the square on the other side of the king.

or 'like playing chess with a pigeon'[note 1] is a figure of speech originating from a comment made in March 2005 on Amazon by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer[2] regarding Eugenie Scott's book Evolution vs. Creationism: An introduction:

Play Chess With A Pigeon

“”Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.

As such 'debating techniques' are not limited to creationists, the phrase has entered the general Internet lexicon,[3] together with the source quotation, which is sometimes cited as an anonymous 'Internet law'. The reference to creationists is usually replaced with whatever group the user is arguing with.

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Andrew Schlafly was similarly described for his contributions to Usenettalk.origins in 2002:[4] 'I tried it for a while, but arguing with Andy is like playing chess with a small child who doesn't know the rules.'

The 2007 cartoon 'King me!' by Rudis Muiznieks[5] uses a similar joke and has achieved some notice in the skepticsphere:[6]

How to castle on game pigeon chess game
(Above image copyright © 2007, Rudis Muiznieks. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License)

See also[edit]

  • Monkey typewriter theory — with enough pigeons and chess boards, we could find a grand master

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Notes[edit]

  1. ↑Not to be be confused with 'Playing Checkers With Pigeons' appearing in a Sesame Street sketch from 1978.[1]

External links[edit]

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Playing Chess With Pigeons - talk.origins veteran Troy Britain's blog

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References[edit]

  1. ↑https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Dkf_UH_aI
  2. ↑http://www.amazon.com/review/R2367M3BJ05M82 - though a commenter there claims that they 'came across it in 2001 attributed to 'anonymous/unknown.'
  3. ↑Obligatory Urban Dictionary entry for 'pigeon chess'
  4. ↑Richard Carnes on talk.origins, March 15, 2002
  5. ↑http://cectic.com/069
  6. ↑http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/2140-king-me

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