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Any questions you might have about how a game of chess works with a blind person will likely be answered next week. Or not. I dunno. Hard to tell where this is going, honestly.
“How about a nice game of chess?”
The only way to win is not to play.
Well against Hannah anyhow, she’s probably a chess shark, regularly hustling rubes in seedy chess halls.
My go-to for avoiding “I would have thought you’d like __” is “You’d think that, but no”. Or “Contrary to popular opinion…”.
Greetings Professor Hawkins.
I think you meant ‘Falken’
It’d be kind of scary if Joshua didn’t remember his ‘daddy’
… especially considering Falken was LOGGED IN.
Ugh, my nerd cred… I may as well just start looking for a girlfriend.
Not to worry Pat.
It was probably just a bit error in your cout stream.
But it’s true! It will be nice!
So… it begins.
Not sure what ‘it’ is, but … it’s something.
In a completely non-surprising turn of events, Hannah is up to something.
She is. She is up to chess.
Everyone is going to make divots in the floor when they see this and their jaws drop.
Chess ?
Ughh…..
Why not?
BTW, sexy Puck with a Mustache is a major turn-off.
As are mustaches, in general.
Might as well grow complete face-furr.
As I have.
Purr…..
The vixens cannot get enough of me.
Since 1592.
The mustache is actually a separate asset I could remove. If I chose to.
I trust you entirely as far as comedy beat are concerned.
With that out of the way, the answer to “how does a blind person play chess?” is actually shockingly simple: the board is made to be haptically explored (and has peg holes so you don’t knock the pieces over with your hands) and the black and white pieces are differentiated via the presence or absence of a little spike on top of each of the pieces.
I’m glad you trust me.
Because I don’t trust me.
The game of Kings!
There’s a reason why games like Chess and Go have realigned popular after all this time.
Thought the Sport of Kings was bowling.
That’s the sport of King Ralph.
…Remember King Ralph, anyone?
It’s a big thing on Twitch now, I guess.
Oh she’s goooood!
Such a hustler.
Don’t hate the player; hate the game.
i´d think daph is more a monopoly kind of girl – and utterly vicious at it too.
To much of a chance to not have things go your way.
You want a vicious Monopoly player. Kind Monopoly players result in games that never end.
Simple, since all she can see are blobs of shapes and colors, there is always having your opponent simply say, on the left side are your kings pieces, queens on the right. And since everything is either king’s knight to c3 or a3. Or queen’s bishop to h3.
A working theory.
You don’t need to see the board to play chess. You don’t need the board AT ALL. The starting position is fixed. The starting player has queen on left, on D1.
Queen on her own color. Always.
Ugh, I really am ham fisted today.
Should I mention that someone actually built a chess cheating system into a martial aid?
Depends. Daphne could be playing dumb so she can get Hannah to put money down on the game.
I think neither is dumb enough to put money on this game.
I see a new power clique rising up through the halls of their hallowed institution of education. It is called, Chess Club.
Rule number one: you don’t talk about chess club.
Rule number two:
You’ve never run into the Chess Hustlers of New York, have you?
No, but if you hum a few bars I CAN tell you that I’ve seen them on YouTube.
Wow, talk about convincing Daphne to play a game of chess. Honestly, with how she acts all the time you would think that Daphne would be an amateur at the game of chess by now…
I think Daphne IS an amateur.
All I can think about is Scotty challenging “not-Kirk” with a 3D Chess problem to prevent unauthorized Transporter use.
“Queen to Queen’s level three”: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chess_problem
CHESS!!!
Oh, Hannah’s good . . . well, no. Professional though, oh yes. I confidently expect to soon learn of her selling the Confederation Bridge! Twice!
I’m sure the Gecko knows perfectly aware of chess and other games for blind people.
Wait until she discovers any hidden information game. Many card games rewards trickery and subderfuge. Cribbage, for instance. Gin Rummy. Canasta. Bridge. But somehow, I don’t think she’d like hanging out with a bunch of middle-aged people to learn all the weird ins and outs that’ll allow her to know and how to take down a 6 No-Trump and make the other team cry.
Very clever strip this week.
Thanks. Must be the chess.
I’ve noticed the glow effects around people before, but I never quite figured out what the intent behind it is.
Stylistic. I just do it to make the comic pop, that’s all. Intense glows usually mean intense emotions, but it’s 99% aesthetic.
So, the colour choice doesn’t have significance?
Red is anger, yellow is shock. Pink is affection, usually. But every strip has its own color palette, so blues and purples and oranges and other shades pop in without much real significance.
Guess Colin would be Tuxedo Mask there with Sailor Puck. The only superhero who can be thwarted with a spray bottle of Roundup. lol
Colin would be a very bad Tuxedo Mask.
He’s a bargain basement Keiichi Morisato . . . . that said, Colin has his truly stellar moments. Respect The Colin!
Oh, I respect the Colin entirely. It’s Tuxedo Mask I don’t care for. LOL Like I said, only superhero that I know of that can be defeated with a spray bottle of Roundup. I mean really, he throws a rose and says a maybe at best Jr. High pep talk?
Might Colin have been a better Tux Mask whoever’s going it now.
Queen takes Pawn!
Oh, well put!
Daphne first introduced Hannah as evil. She went on about how evil Hannah was… and now we know she was right.
Not evil. Just in control.
I think as Hannah learns more about chess, she’ll learn the real goal isn’t to take the opponent’s valuable pieces, but to entrap their king.
She already knows all, I think.
Hannah’s smart. She’s going to educate Daphne I’m sure.
We are all afraid.
I think Hannah is still three moves ahead.
She has to be. Like Paul Atreides.