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This is why the revolution will never die.

Some would say you've lost before you even began.

But there is an interesting chess variant called horde where Black must capture all of White's pieces to win.

You can stalemate it if you have no valid moves, or lose via time. I think you can technically lose to the repeated moves rule too? But then again that's applying tournament rules to this scenario so...

I'm all for self-reliance, but only if it's realistic.

If your opponent in a negotiation is not self-reliant, then you shouldn't be either.

It's pretty straight forward I think. Each side loses one piece every round. If white somehow runs out of pawns that can check the black king, or if the black king manages to get behind the pawns, white can still promote some of them and win.

It's pretty clearly a win for white, unless black forces a stalemate. Those knights won't last and that's a fuckton of pawns, even ignoring promotion.

It would be tricksy trying to get checkmate without promoting any, but one or two promotions is all it would take to make it a sinch.

... if you can find one hiring.

What I’ve learned is that some of us are gonna die, there’s no way around it.

Good news is I’m an idiot and managed to do it losing two pawns.

https://lichess.org/editor/2nnn3/2nkn3/2nnn3/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP_w_-_-_0_1?variant=horde&color=white

Yes, making it to the other side is just leaving the egg

*if they make it to the other side

"stop working so hard the quotas will go up and we will be expected to make more"

They were right.

That is why you vote and get involved.in your union. same as governments, dont just pay your due and hope for the best.

They are corrupt and don't address the problem because much of the union leadership are reactionaries opposed to people having real power. Unions used to literally fight the police and national guard, radical unions have been dismantled and co-opted continually for the last century. It's not just about holding power, it's about the underlying worldview of the groups in power as well, and any unions that meaningfully challenged the normal capitalist status quo have been crushed by the US security apparatus.

No. Your pawn game must be weak as fuck if that's how you read this board.

Black can only take eight pawns before losing all their knights. After that it's just a matter of laddering white pawns until they queen up

but that will allow some of the pawns to reach the end and transition, gaining superpowers