“Twenty graybeards sitting in a square played chess yesterday in Paris against a very small boy 8 years old, and he beat them all. Among the graybeards were some of the best players in France, and one at least, whose boast it is that he drew with Capablanca, the Pan-American chess champion…”
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BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ok, I’ll be that guy. Yes, the kid actually did win all these matches. Though it’s not clear whether the old guys were masters, grandmasters, or just old.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The real grandmasters were the old guys we made along the way