Think how much worse it would have been without the song I posted.
If you’re castling in chess, you’re supposed to move the king first. If you move (or touch) the rook first, your opponent can invoke the “touched piece” rule and require you to make a regular move with the rook rather than castling.
There’s an aquarium shaped like a turtle in Vietnam. Looks pretty cool.
Drum kits are “handed”. AIUI, Ringo got some of his distinctive sound from being a lefty playing a right handed kit. I always thought, to the extent I thought about it, that drummers just spread their equipment out around the bass drum however they liked, and they all had their preferences. I didn’t realize there was some sort of orthodoxy to the placements.
Wow. My wife and I play a lot of chess. 8-10 games a week. Friendly games, often is heard “are you sure you want to do that?” Only said really when you know the person knew they where in trouble but looked at something else and totally blundered.
While we are competitive, and each play to win, we give mulligans once in a while.
We have painted turtles in our area. I just learned that the females are laying eggs in nests now and babies will hatch in late summer or early fall. They usually stay in the nest until the next spring!
…and depressing.
TIL that the phrases “takes the cake” (meaning “to win”), “piece of cake”, and “cakewalk” (meaning something easy) originated with the cakewalk, a dance that had its origins with slaves and former slaves in the southern US in the mid 1800s:
It’s turtles all the way d…
Nope, just the one.
But maybe turtles inside of the turtle.
That’s the way I prefer to play games as well. I’m not a big fan of the touch rule in chess.
But as long as we’re on the subject, here’s another aspect of that rule many people don’t know. I think most chess players are aware that if you touch one of your pieces, you are then obligated to move it (if you can legally do so). But I think most chess players aren’t aware that the rule also applies to touching an opponent’s piece; if you touch one, you are obligated to capture it if you are legally able to do so.
Yeah. Sure the one touch would be fine playing in a tournament or something. But I think is a bit much for a friendly game
En Passant capture in chess is really strange. I don’t really understand it. A computer chess game caught me doing it once though.
It’s a mouthful -
“A pawn attacking a square crossed by an opponent’s pawn which has advanced two squares in one move from its original square may capture this opponent’s pawn as though the latter had been moved only one square. This capture is only legal on the move following this advance and is called an ‘en passant’ capture.”
Can you dangle your finger really close to the piece and say “I’m not touching it! I’m not touching it!” just to annoy the other player? That’s legal in chess right?
There was an episode of Lucy’s “The Lucy Show” in which dancer John Bubbles and an elderly-dressed Paul Winchell getting into an argument over whether one had touched or ‘jiggled’ the piece. I don’t have time to do the details, but it’s on youtube (one of the “Main Street” episodes).
Watch out, this move should not be used if you’re playing against a computer. Short-circuits and the resulting showers of sparks are often fire hazards.
The platypus does not have a stomach.
It’s worse than that:
Actually, when it is your move, you’re allowed to touch any piece you want, as long as you precede the touch with some form of “I adjust” (J’adoube), which can be just as annoying as dangling your hand over a piece.
It’s pretty simple, you don’t need to memorize the rule. Just remember that your pawn captures diagonally (forward). So if another pawn scoots through a square you could capture on, then when it is your move, you’ve allowed to say (internally) “not so fast, buddy” and make that diagonal capture as if the opposing pawn had to make a courtesy stop on the square, but didn’t.
Here’s a video explaining it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_KRIH0wnhE