IIRC they were elephants originally, but the Europeans didn’t know what an elephant was. Forgot about Hannibal, I guess.
No, the rooks where the ones who were elephants. Towers atop battle elephants.
Replacing the elephant really was throwing salt in the wound
*Pony
It should be a dude on a horse.
It’s called a horsey, silly
You tho thilly! ☺
“So it’s called a ‘knight’?”
“Yes.”
“But it’s shaped like a horse, not a knight.”
“Yes.”
“And it can only move in an ‘L’ shaped pattern.”
“…Yes.”
“That’s not confusing at all.”
Don’t forget that it’s the only piece that can jump over other pieces.
The king jumps over the rook when castling
That’s clearly the rook jumping over the king
They actually do that narrow hallway awkward press your body against the wall and shuffle pass thing.
Do they do crotch-to-crotch?
Ope, I’ll just scooch right by ya there
Ope,
I love you people. My family, my friends, and then you people. You’re like the third leg of my sanity stool.
Ooh, I love Sanity Stool, have you heard their new single?
Damnit I’ve said this exact thing.
Or after the short dance I’ll just point a direction and be like “I’ll go that way”
Those are literally the only two options. Super polite and wordy, or awkward and asocial.
Now, what does it remind you? A KNIGHT jumping around like a kid?
Patrick/wallet meme
various languages: so I called it a horse.
It’s just a knight with a coconut shell.
When your phone screen is so dirty that the smudge shows up on screenshots
Nah that’s your screen. This screenshot seems clean to me
no it’s naughty
Actually, they didn’t manufacture the chess pieces… so not really…
These horses were knighted. Be respectful and call them by their title!
It’s Lieutenant Peanut Butter!
Ser Horse
Actually they’re called Gallahop and Daughter of Gallahop.
