🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Jul 4, 2018 02:14 AM UTC:
Let's first look at how much can be said in 64 characters. This is less than half the size of a tweet. Looking at the tags I came up with earlier today, the longest is "Promotion Only to Captured Pieces" at 33 characters. If I changed that to "Promotion Only to Captured Piece", I could make 32 characters the maximum length for a tag. Sometimes, the tag itself will be self-explanatory. Let me look for an example where longer descriptions will be helpful.
Non-Standard Capturing
Longer: Capture by means other than displacement or en passant. (90 characters)
Full: Apart from en passant capture, pieces in Chess capture by displacement. This involves moving to the space the piece is on and taking its place. In a way, en passant is a variation on capture by displacement. It involves moving to the space the captured Pawn would have moved to if it hadn't been allowed a one-time double move. The rule of en passant capture effectively allows the normal capture of a piece that was granted a special move. But capture by displacement and this variation on it are not the only ways pieces can be captured in games. Checkers capture other checkers by jumping over them. In games like Ultima and Rococo, pieces capture by a variety of different means, such as moving one space short of a piece, moving away from a piece, surrounding a piece on two sides, leaping beyond a piece, and forming geometric arrangements between pieces. These are just some examples, and you will find other means of capturing pieces in other games. This tag is for games that allow capture by any means not employed in Chess.
Let's first look at how much can be said in 64 characters. This is less than half the size of a tweet. Looking at the tags I came up with earlier today, the longest is "Promotion Only to Captured Pieces" at 33 characters. If I changed that to "Promotion Only to Captured Piece", I could make 32 characters the maximum length for a tag. Sometimes, the tag itself will be self-explanatory. Let me look for an example where longer descriptions will be helpful.
Non-Standard Capturing
Longer: Capture by means other than displacement or en passant. (90 characters)
Full: Apart from en passant capture, pieces in Chess capture by displacement. This involves moving to the space the piece is on and taking its place. In a way, en passant is a variation on capture by displacement. It involves moving to the space the captured Pawn would have moved to if it hadn't been allowed a one-time double move. The rule of en passant capture effectively allows the normal capture of a piece that was granted a special move. But capture by displacement and this variation on it are not the only ways pieces can be captured in games. Checkers capture other checkers by jumping over them. In games like Ultima and Rococo, pieces capture by a variety of different means, such as moving one space short of a piece, moving away from a piece, surrounding a piece on two sides, leaping beyond a piece, and forming geometric arrangements between pieces. These are just some examples, and you will find other means of capturing pieces in other games. This tag is for games that allow capture by any means not employed in Chess.