Historical fun fact

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• BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The real grandmasters were the old guys we made along the way

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “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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• Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He should have put them in a circle and mimiced the moves of the masters cross from each other, in other words, make them play against each other instead

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I watched that magic special as well.

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• turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why does the second one from the left look like putin

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  • 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Soviet Russia, chess plays you

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because if you sum up every average mug in Russia, you’ll get Putin.

    You’re not very good spy if you have very unique and conspicuous face.

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d easily be able to defeat half of them

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d easily be able to be defeated by all of them.

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  • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In chess right? Right?

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes in chess.

      It is hard to move a piece when you are buried in the ground.

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    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No in hand to hand comatose you fool Jesus read the room

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  • 5C5C5C@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could easily defeat 600,000 babies in a chess match.

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• FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who could’ve guessed

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• bnfdhfdhfd2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d get the same result.

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• therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heartwarming story

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m as good as American Chess Grandmaster Reshevsky!

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• 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “back in my day…”

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You grow with your tasks

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