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r/anarchychess: the lore, decoded

“pipi”, as used by 20,426 authors. Your chess vocabulary is incomplete.

Expect “passant”, “pipi”, and a chess vocabulary that includes “horsey” and “The Knook”. Six eras trace the changing phrases across 268,659 posts and 3,539,245 comments, from early pawn talk to later bot-account wording. Highlights include a “holy hell” post and a request for 16,384 comments in exchange for double the demented horses.

Signature lore of r/anarchychess

Key moments