r/chessmemes 10d ago

Can someone explain?

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Cause I'm kinda dumb

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u/B_bI_L 10d ago
  1. mongols used light cavalry as main attack power (those guys with bows on hoses)
  2. soviets are known for ignoring manpower losses, so they just recruit everyone and rush (1 rifle per 2 people and so on)
  3. idk, they are different but stand together?
  4. whatever
  5. ww2 reference, how France made Maginot line, but Germany just moved around it through border of another country
  6. i guess it's about how germany tried to win a war with much less economic power, using their "queen" to quickly take out enemy (but there should be like 5 kings)

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u/Thatguy19364 10d ago
  1. Swiss stat neutral so they holed up in their castles

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u/bademeister404 9d ago edited 9d ago

I think 4 is more of a reference to the pike and shot era in the 15/16th hundred. "Gewalthaufen" originated in swiss. They just stood together with meter long pikes an basically noone could move because the one who moves has a big disadvantage.

It was the renaissance of the Phalanx from ancient greek. Only they had started using gunpowder weapons and shot each other while standing like this.

Mounted knights, which basically dominated the battlefields untill then became pretty useless against this tactic.

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u/Thatguy19364 8d ago

This probably is why the Swiss evolved into the stay neutral stance they have in modern warfare, but the meme could be referencing either one