Editing 1112: Think Logically

{{comic
| number    = 1112
| date      = September 24, 2012
| title     = Think Logically
| image     = think_logically.png
| imagesize = 
| titletext = I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts.
}}

==Explanation==
Chess is a very old board game in which two players take turns moving their 16 pieces, one at a time, to try and capture the other player's king. The knight is a piece in chess that can only move in an L-shaped pattern, but compensate by being able to jump over other pieces. The comic highlights two mistakes players often make in chess: complete fixation on the king at the cost of their other pieces, and inability to take advantage of the knight's movement patterns.

The comic is primarily a jab at competitive online games whose fans call for "buffs" -power additions- and "nerfs" -power reductions- to characters that they believe to be underpowered or overpowered, often with inadequate knowledge of those characters. Chess is widely agreed upon to be perfectly balanced, and Cueball's criticisms of the knights show obvious lack of knowledge of the knight's potential. 

The title text depicts Cueball trying to suggest revisions to the rules of chess and not understanding why his complaints are being ignored.

==Transcript==
:[Man wearing a hat is sitting down at a computer. Cueball is standing behind him.]
:Keyboard:''Move''
:Cueball: Why'd you move your knight away?

:[Man wearing hat turns around and rests his arm on his chair.]
:Cueball: Just think ''logically''. The goal is checkmate, so you should always move pieces ''toward'' the other player's king.

:[Closeup of Cueball.]
:Cueball: I guess occasionally you need to move backward, but it'd be trivial to make a list of those circumstances and -

:[Man wearing hat is leaning back in chair facing Cueball.]
:Man: Have you ever ''played'' chess?
:Cueball: Not much, but -
:Man: Wanna?
:Cueball: Uh, ok.

:[Man and Cueball playing chess.]
:Man: *Move*
:Cueball: *Move*
:Man: *Move*
:Cueball: *Move*
:Man: *Move*
:Cueball: *Move*
:Man: *Move* Checkmate.

:[Cueball standing and staring at the chess board.]

:[Man returns to his computer.]
:Cueball: This game isn't very well-designed. For starters, knights are too weak...

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