Chapotraphouse

The merit of youth is being able to adapt to new environments much quicker. The demerit is they're more chaotic so the wins aren't as consistent.

Once you develop certain habits over a long period of time, you become predictable. However you have a higher consistency of wins playing against opponents from the similar time period as your own. Because they're probably used to the same habits as you are.

I could go on, but I think too much already. This is why they added a time limit to chess games.

Can you even imagine a single U.S. politician, let alone a President, just sitting around and playing chess with children?

This is exactly why I don't show up to our local chess club

"Okay but who overthrew a colonial dictatorship?"

"I'm 8."

"Excuses excuses."

Being destroyed by an 8-year-old is the standard chess experience tbh

Put that kid on the basketball court

We'll see who is the big man in Havana now

:fidel-checkmated: has excellent emoji potential

He looks devastated.

Check Maté

Great, now when I think of a Fidel Castro "chess master" will no longer be the first thing I think of.

Miles Davis probably the only person across human history who emanates cool as much as Fidel

chess is counterrevolutionary. you want me to sacrifice my pawns (peasants) for the queen (despicable liege lord)? a true friend of the people is checked in 3 moves through the emancipation of the serfs and application of laicism. the heap of chess masters from the USSR embody the revisionism of the post-stalin era in the Soviet Union