Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
Very Bad Wizards
Is There a Goal in Chess?
The complexity of what it means to put something in checkmate is not clearly obvious when you set up the rules of chess. "It still would be uh something that is not known until you played that first game of chess," he says. It's just dependent on how you describe the game maybe to somebody who hasn't played or maybe to just somebody in general when you're describing it.
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