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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

A lot of chess players are stupid as hell, they're just really good at chess. There's a lot of reverence for the game but it's basically a combination of high level trivia and poker.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I had a guy at work once tell me that chess players were the smartest people on the planet. I told him that if that was true, then they would be doing something other than play a board game. It's like thinking that being good at StarCraft 2 makes you good at computer programming. Absolutely wild assumptions.

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