Now, my friend who doesn't even play chess pointed this out to me. All he knows is that the pawn can be promoted to anything except a king. So, the pawn must be female since it can be promoted to a queen and not a king. And the bishops, knights, and rooks must also be female since the pawn can promote into them too. Feel free to argue against this!
Female bees, ants, komodo dragons, and hammerhead sharks can reproduce and make male babies.
@AetherMaster101Chess
Well that's in his language. In different languages pieces' names are different so it makes sense why a pawn can promote to a "queen" but not to a "king".
I didn't know biology changed based on the language one speaks.
@AetherMaster101Chess said in #1:
> Now, my friend who doesn't even play chess pointed this out to me. All he knows is that the pawn can be promoted to anything except a king. So, the pawn must be female since it can be promoted to a queen and not a king. And the bishops, knights, and rooks must also be female since the pawn can promote into them too. Feel free to argue against this!
If we suppose that gender is defined by the ability to reproduce via getting pregnant or being able to cause pregnancy, then what happens after the race to deliver mate to the opposing king? Does the mating piece get to have kids with the opposing king? Are the kids mixed race = half white / half black?
@DontDisThisPosition said in #4:
> I didn't know biology changed based on the language one speaks.
Well, not every language calls it a "queen". Some might call it, say, a "duke" (and dukes are male, in case you didn’t know). Think about this.
@AOOP09 said in #6:
> > I didn't know biology changed based on the language one speaks.
>
> Well, not every language calls it a "queen". Think about this.
It's still what it represents. That doesn't change. lorry/truck, lift/elevator, rucksack/backpack, etc....
No no. It does change.
It represents the same piece but a duke is male and a queen is female. Therefore saying that a pawn must be female because it can be promoted to a queen, but not a king, wouldn’t make sense in another language. In that language, a pawn might even be seen as male, because what English calls a "queen" might be called "duke", and what English calls a "king" might be "duchess".
This has absolutely nothing to do with biology.
@AetherMaster101Chess said in #1:
> Now, my friend who doesn't even play chess pointed this out to me. All he knows is that the pawn can be promoted to anything except a king. So, the pawn must be female since it can be promoted to a queen and not a king. And the bishops, knights, and rooks must also be female since the pawn can promote into them too. Feel free to argue against this!
Hate to break it to you but have you ever heard of transitioning?
@AOOP09 said in #8:
> No no. It does change.
> It represents the same piece but a duke is male and a queen is female. Therefore saying that a pawn must be female because it can be promoted to a queen, but not a king, wouldn’t make sense in another language. In that language, a pawn might even be seen as male, because what English calls a "queen" might be called "duke", and what English calls a "king" might be "duchess".
> This has absolutely nothing to do with biology.
The female would be a duchess, not a duke. And at the end, the king could be a queen. All you have to do is swap the pieces and also swap the moves they can make. But how does that give a gender to a rook?