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Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess

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Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess

Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr released a browser game consisting of eight, very silly variations on chess – a flagrant assault on the dignity of a strategy experience whose roots go back a thousand years, which Barr justified as an effort to “allow non-players of chess to get a kick out of the game”. Read more

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