“JESUS CHRIST!!”

AND THEN THE BISHOP COMES IN WITH A STEEL CHAIR

Pretty much yeah

so the reason the horsy makes L shaped moves is because it spins and curves in mid air?

Google en passant

IRL it'd be more like

It's obviously a cunning plot that poisons the king, executed by the horse riding charlatan. Walls don't work if you're poisoned, you still die. Checkmate.

Fechez le horse!