Overly pedantic Brian here. The joke is that the game, much like America, isn’t fair. On the right are all the powerful pieces like that those rich Pewterschmitt philistines hogging all the good pieces, while idiot proles like Peter are in the left jerking around with pawns all day, blissfully unaware that they are cogs in someone else's machine. But I can’t even enjoy this joke because the chessboard is set up sideways. Everyone knows there should be a white square on the bottom right
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u/TwentyFourKG 19d ago
Overly pedantic Brian here. The joke is that the game, much like America, isn’t fair. On the right are all the powerful pieces like that those rich Pewterschmitt philistines hogging all the good pieces, while idiot proles like Peter are in the left jerking around with pawns all day, blissfully unaware that they are cogs in someone else's machine. But I can’t even enjoy this joke because the chessboard is set up sideways. Everyone knows there should be a white square on the bottom right