Sounds like a rule someone made up on the spot. Kinda like how children just change the rules of their games
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It's about 500 years old, and was a change of the game in response to the change in the game that allowed pawns to move two squares when they leave their starting row. No, not every country adopted it at first, took another 200 years to become a universal rule.
jun 15, 2025, 3:41 am • 6 0 • view
In other words, it's a Calvinball rule change in response to an earlier Calvinball rule change. :-)
jun 15, 2025, 5:59 am • 7 0 • view
Ah, I miss Calvinball so much!
jun 15, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view