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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 98 points 7 months ago

Communism built a society in which an insufferable goober like that is able to spend all their time playing a little game while pretending it's important. Those tAnKiE sCuM won WW2 so he could play with horsey pieces instead of working.

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[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 96 points 7 months ago

Kasparov's grandfather was a staunch communist, but the young Kasparov gradually began to have doubts about the Soviet Union's political system at age 13 when he travelled abroad for the first time in 1976 to Paris for a chess tournament.[198] In 1981, at age 18, he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.

Goober

[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

When you have to read a book to believe your country is evil because your lived experience doesn’t lead you to that conclusion whatsoever

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago

Thats's like becoming a death to America guy after reading Man in the High Castle

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

Many such cases. pete

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.

Well there's your problem. You read a lying antisemitic, lying, trotskyite, saboteur, grifter, and CIA-payed fan-fiction writer's shitty-ass book

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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 86 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Gulag Gulagovich Gulagov is a pretty good username.

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago

what is it with chess players and being reactionary shitbags

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 56 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If you have the time and resources to get good at a game like chess and believe the IQ bullshit in chess culture, it's not that hard to end up a reactionary.

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago

Yep, the elitism for sure. NGL, it's embarrassing that it's taken me this long to realize that a lot of reactionaries aren't "dumb sheeple", but complete asswipes that think they're better than everyone else. With the "chess is for smart people" bullshit, no wonder a lot of the top chess players have politics that match their pompous attitudes.

frothingfash: "I am better than everyone else and therefore people like me deserve special treatment to ensure no rube 'steals' power that I earned by birthright."

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

A lot of chess players are stupid as hell, they're just really good at chess. There's a lot of reverence for the game but it's basically a combination of high level trivia and poker.

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[-] President_Obama@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago

Always been a boy's club, and not a good one. Just like golf. Patriarchal elite sport.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

Woah, let's not go that far. Chess at least requires skill and has a lower carbon impact.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

Elite chess players can be strange too. Kasparov popularized this wacky conspiracy theory.

New chronology (Fomenko)

The new chronology is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.

[...]

Fomenko's historical ideas have been universally rejected by mainstream scientists, historians, and scholars, who brand them as pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience, but were popularized by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Billington writes that the theory "might have quietly blown away in the wind tunnels of academia" if not for Kasparov's writing in support of it in the magazine Ogoniok.

Kasparov met Fomenko during the 1990s, and found that Fomenko's conclusions concerning certain subjects were identical to his own regarding the popular view (which is not the view of academics) that art and culture died during the Dark Ages and were not revived until the Renaissance.

Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use. Kasparov does not support the reconstruction part of the new chronology.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use.

reddit-logo brain and "dae le science progress bar" freeze-gamer beliefs. Not even once.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

This guy played too much Civ

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Many such cases; a whole lot of my-hero 's culty fandom is freeze-gamer that believe that landing a publicly-funded private bazinga rocket on Mars is some sort of "science victory" that makes humanity's credits roll and waves hands wildly wins the game somehow and that nothing matters except that performative moment.

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[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fuck I just made a joke about that and you already posted it. I am the inferior poster :(

Kasparov literally genuinely doesn't know what year it is.

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

Remember when he got so pissy about not getting a say in where the world championship was going to be he started his own opposing chess organization? Lol

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[-] TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml 29 points 7 months ago

I only play this move in passing

[-] President_Obama@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

Holy ~~hell~~ boykisser boykisser

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 52 points 7 months ago

Smh guy hasnt made anything decent since Garrysmod

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 52 points 7 months ago

How one acquired power by fighting for the powerless was never explained

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

being good at playing games doesn't make you informed about the world emilie-shrug

i know a kid who kicks ass at roblox but i'm not gonma ask her about astrophysics

[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

Chess is monarchist and sexist propaganda.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

counterpoint: chess is trans. pawns become queens.

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[-] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago

If Kasparov grew up in the west he'd be like a 1200 chess player.

[-] JamesGoblin@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

Kasparov was virtually created by Botvinnik - "a staunch communist" in K's own words; K himself greatly benefitted from (and wouldn't exist without) the "oppressive shithole"; K was a member of communist party for too long - IIRC he was one of the last liberals to leave it in early nineties(!) which, somehow, didn't stop him to play the role of "freedom fighter"- the image western media exploited to 110% in late 80s.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

Another chin-rubbing liberal smuglord. smuglord

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

never ask Kasparov on his position on Columbus or BLM movement

or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common

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[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

"Gratismut" is a german compound word made out of the two words "Gratis" (for free)" and "Mut" (courage) that describes the concept of taking a stand for or against something at a point in time when there's literally no discernible consequences left for doing it

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

Chess players are literally no better than gamers

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

Like all joking aside...that's basically all they are, right? There's a generation of movie and supervillain cliches building up this idea that being good at chess requires and/or unlocks some kind of deep mental super power but its all just pattern recognition and puzzle solving right? That's obviously not nothing and requires a degree of mental acuity and discipline to become a master at but imagine seriously caring about what Daigo Umehara thinks about Israel/Palestine or something and you can quickly see how ridiculous it is.

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[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

Video games are actually fun

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

"In the past, I have said that there is real chess and women’s chess. Some people don’t like to hear this, but chess does not fit women properly. It’s a fight, you know? A big fight. It’s not for women. Sorry. She’s helpless if she has men’s opposition. I think this is a very simple logic. It’s the logic of a fighter, a professional fighter. Women are weaker fighters."

Kasparov is a reactionary moron, always has been.

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

noted dweeb garry kasparov posts another L

Death to America

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

Damn, I didn't realize this guy was still alive. Figured the CIA would have knocked him just out of boredom.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

Deep Blue was a tankie spy

[-] lemat_87@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Yet another proof that learning chess makes you skilled only in... chess.

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[-] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

whatever, Kasparov is so full of himself, he's not even that good at Chess. I could beat him if someone told me what the rules of chess are.

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Bitch, you were born in Azerbaijan and grew up in Minsk. What the fuck do you know about living in Russia?

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