I mean does anybody really know how to play Chess?
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dumples@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
We hit that bullseye and the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.
Checkmate.
Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
your buddy vapes over the game board
“I activate fog of war”
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
But that is how CEO assholes work (or try to until they can’t get away with it)
Source: worked with nearly a dozen CEOs of various size companies
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
To be fair, though, if you were in a game of chess where you could make 10 moves for every one move your opponent makes, it would be really easy to win that game of chess.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The Scholar’s mate school of business.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Chess with flash windows.
I feel so fucking dirty for saying those words. Good god.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t want to ruin this meme, but he’s saying a real thing in a confusing way. You have to think 10 moves ahead of your opponent and also the repercussions of each move at every step.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Zero points for saying it wrong, though.
“You miss every shot you take”
“The only thing we do not fear is fear itself”
“Interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake”
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“If fighting is sure to result in defeat then you must fight”
Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
There is a wonderful cartoon book by Tom Weller called “Minims”. A minim is the opposite of a maxim. So the book is full of illustrations of wisdom like “The early worm gets eaten by the bird.” and “You’ll catch more flies with honey than you’d care to.” The book’s subtitle is “Man is the only animal that wears bow ties.”
(Although, I have to admit, my husky sometimes wears bow ties and he looks a lot better in them than I do.)
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
No, he said a real thing in a completely factually wrong way, and that’s assuming that this “entrepeneur” actually understood it correctly, which I doubt.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, that’s kind of the point - someone else wiser said the real thing, then Mr smarty-pants heard it, didn’t understand it, but thought it sounded cool so began repeating what he thought he heard to people who also don’t know any better, but like the way he says it so they give him their money to play with. Business/capitalism in a nutshell.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Shouldve said business is like starcraft then
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
But he’s correct. If you’re rich enough you can bribe all the seconds, then you can make extra moves and irregular moves. Heck, you can just have all the seconds declare you victor.
For extra points, hire guys with guns to make sure everyone at the tournament agrees with your rules.
This is the state of modern neoliberal capitalism from the view of billionaire oligarchs and multi-national conglomerate corporations.
_chris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alpha in the software sense: pre-release, lots of bugs, definitely not ready for production, sale, or wide public viewing.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And increasingly: Mostly composed of an assortment of self-reinforced hallucinations.
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alpha male when full release male walks in: 😧
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So we can ship it tomorrow? Great I just told the investors, so we’re now leagly obligated to ship it tomorrow.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I gave up on playing chess. The game has become such a metaphor, such a fetish symbol for intellect, so every dude “knows how to play”, but won’t risk the humiliation of loss, and therefore won’t play. I don’t enjoy online chess, so I just don’t get to play.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hear you can cheat at chess by sticking a vibrator in your ass.
Maybe that’s what the rich CEOs are doing to win
Cheems@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I keep trying but it doesn’t seem to make me rich
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Maybe you already are without realizing it yet 💖
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s called tempo, you sub-1800ers /s
Ironrod@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Aww man, I just got up to 1350 😢
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
wait ELOs aren’t like golf?
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
uuuuuuuuuuuck
racoon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Well instead of “make” it should be “think” and it would be fine, you fool
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Read between the lines: they’re saying that you have to cheat to win.
neatchee@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Business is like Start Craft 2, you gotta raise your APM if you want to beat the Korean pros
daannii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I “know” how to play chess but when I try to play against a computer I constantly get reminded I can’t move my piece there because I would be putting myself in check.
Pretty sure I’ve only won 2 chess games in my life. … Against someone at my level.
underscores@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
you didn’t know about the French cum sock opener? you fool ! had you know you could have forked me into giving up one of my pieces !
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Chess isn’t actually a logic game or a smarts game, it’s a memory game. If you’re a computer or one of those 15-people-per-generation chess brains, then yeah, you probably can logic your way into thinking enough moves ahead. If not, your only option is to remember a bunch of different plays and learn how to recognise and execute the preditermined strategies. If you try to do it your way, you will be stuck losing to a bad computer or chess club kids online
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I beat my kids
at chess whenever we play.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you told me this before, I would be winning every game of chess I played
TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If he said “do them in your head” it would have made more sense lol
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This explains SO much about their psyche.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
is this from Trump’s book?
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The art of the steal.
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
After the first check you just eat their king
richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He doesn’t tell how it works…
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No no, this makes sense, you literally need to cheat.
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It works for the crooks in charge.
But the people paying for these kind of alpha boot camps aren’t ever going to be in that position. They’ll just put on blinders and “hustle” like a good little worker.