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[–] 69 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Being destroyed by an 8-year-old is the standard chess experience tbh

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    I was beating people at chess when I was six

    By eight, I was beating guys at 40K down at the hobby shoppe

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Hey

    I never killed a kid in the shower using math or whatever happened in those books

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    He kicked the kid in the face until he died

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    And that was before we get to the ethnically homogenous planet of genetically engineered tiny chinese people with OCD

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You are forgetting the religious cult.

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  • [–] 50 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Put that kid on the basketball court

    We'll see who is the big man in Havana now

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  • [+] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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    [–] 28 points 5 months ago*

    Great, now when I think of a Fidel Castro "chess master" will no longer be the first thing I think of.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    :fidel-checkmated: has excellent emoji potential

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Here it is with just Fidel for more general use. Wasn't sure how to include the chess/kid without it being illegible/too small or splitting it in half. Seeing if I can make a version that includes them as well.

    Edit: Added second version.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago
    [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    chess is counterrevolutionary. you want me to sacrifice my pawns (peasants) for the queen (despicable liege lord)? a true friend of the people is checked in 3 moves through the emancipation of the serfs and application of laicism. the heap of chess masters from the USSR embody the revisionism of the post-stalin era in the Soviet Union

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    This is exactly why I don't show up to our local chess club

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Can you even imagine a single U.S. politician, let alone a President, just sitting around and playing chess with children?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)
    [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Miles Davis probably the only person across human history who emanates cool as much as Fidel

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    He looks devastated.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    i too probably would lose at a chess game to an 8 year old if i was dead for 10 years already

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