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I mean does anybody really know how to play Chess?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No no, this makes sense, you literally need to cheat.

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    • 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.

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  • dumples@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zapp Branigann

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    • sjmarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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      • cmoney@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So what that brick do?

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        xkcd.com/1287/

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    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We hit that bullseye and the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.

      Checkmate.

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    • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      your buddy vapes over the game board

      “I activate fog of war”

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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    • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Scholar’s mate school of business.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chess with flash windows.

      I feel so fucking dirty for saying those words. Good god.

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  • 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.

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    • 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”

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      • uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “If fighting is sure to result in defeat then you must fight”

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      • 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.)

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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    • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shouldve said business is like starcraft then

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  • 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.

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  • _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.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And increasingly: Mostly composed of an assortment of self-reinforced hallucinations.

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    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Alpha male when full release male walks in: 😧

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    • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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    • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I keep trying but it doesn’t seem to make me rich

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe you already are without realizing it yet 💖

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s called tempo, you sub-1800ers /s

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    • Ironrod@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aww man, I just got up to 1350 😢

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        wait ELOs aren’t like golf?

        fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

        uuuuuuuuuuuck

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  • racoon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well instead of “make” it should be “think” and it would be fine, you fool

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Read between the lines: they’re saying that you have to cheat to win.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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    • 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 !

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      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • 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

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    • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I beat my kids

      at chess whenever we play.

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  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you told me this before, I would be winning every game of chess I played

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  • TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If he said “do them in your head” it would have made more sense lol

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This explains SO much about their psyche.

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  • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    is this from Trump’s book?

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    • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The art of the steal.

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  • Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    After the first check you just eat their king

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  • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He doesn’t tell how it works…

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