The Media’s Female African Chess ‘Prodigy’ Is Actually Nothing Of The Sort (New Disney Movie)

Dailt Caller ^ | 9-22-2016 | Jonah Bennett

[brucedickinson]

Her actual performance in the chess world shows these to be puff pieces with very little attention paid to empirical fact. Mutesi has no doubt achieved something as a young Ugandan girl living in poverty, to capture the attention of the world, but that something she accomplished is not being good at chess.

She achieved her highest chess rating in 2012, a 1686, as listed by FIDE. As of September 2016, her rating has dropped to 1622. FIDE lists that from the 40th Olympiad in 2012, to April 2016, she played a grand total of 39 matches and never scored above a 1686 rating.

Her rating has been in a near-linear decline since she began playing.

Now, compare Mutesi’s track record with that of Judit Polgar of Hungary, who is considered to be the best female chess player of all

[MUDDOG]

I have pop-ups turned off, so I don’t see it.

If she adds beauty to all the brainpower, wow.

[thoughtomator]

There’s an unfortunate problem that afflicts games in general at very high levels of play, that there ends up being a lot more rote execution of optimized game play than of the creative and emergent type. Kind of defeats the point of playing a game when all one does is execute a script.

Chess is particularly afflicted by this as every reasonable opening has been studied to death to the Nth move.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Google “Alexandra Kosteniuk”. :)

[lizma2]

My son was rated in the 1800’s when he was in college. What impressed me the most is that he would go to tournaments and bring home a chunk of change!

[FredZarguna]

Standard cliche lines currently in jaw-dropping use all over the Interwebs:

• The Photographer Just Kept Filming. [And should have because nothing happened]
• What She Looks Like Now is Jaw Dropping.[Not Really.]
• So-and-So's Mansion Will Leave You Speechless[Probably not even speaking softly for a few moments.]
• This Picture Broke The Internet. [Because pictures women with of large, pendulous breasts are always doing that. Right.]
• The REAL reason Such-and-Such a TV show got cancelled. [Not the real reason.]
• Things the producers of [Everything from NCIS to Speed Racer to Gilligan's Island] DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW.[Except everyone who wanted to know already knew, and nobody else cared.]
• This ONE Simple Trick Cures (Everything from Tinnitus to Diabetes to Belly Fat to ...) [Just Kidding. Please click through thirty pages to buy our snake oil remedy.]
• Actor/Celebrity/Athletes Mansion is Disgusting. [No doubt.]
• #1 Weird Trick To Cure Erectile Dysfunction.[Invariably shown along with picture of the end of a fire hose, the middle of an elephant's trunk, or some other object vaguely reminiscent of uniquely male anatomy.]
• You won't believe what she looks like now. [What I don't believe is that you managed to take a picture of her literally seconds after she got out of bed.]
• Twenty two [or thirty seven, or fifty one...] Stars That Everyone Thinks is Dead. [Apparently they aren't, but the headline is always accompanied by a picture of someone who is. ]

Ah, civilization.

[Garth Tater]

The movie makers and churnalists are creating a fantasy figure who does not exist, yet they pretend that this is the “real, true story”....

That's their job. Seriously, they won't advance in their careers at all if they don't understand - THAT'S THEIR JOB.

[alexander_busek]

Thank you for posting that! Indeed, it is very disheartening.

Some more cliches:

"... what happened then is AMAZING!"

"Home-owners / car drivers / etc. born between 1922 and 1989 [i.e., 95% of the target demographic] MUST read this!"

Obama gives mortgage-holders who meet this one little condition a BIG break!

Regards,

[Dr. Ursus]

Do I win anything for knowing your reference?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

She’s good,for a black female.

[redfreedom]

Judit was in Playboy. Do a Google image search.

[TalBlack]

Lies create confusion and then dissension. If you want to do GOOD leave out the lies.

[bjc]

I am all for the truth. Who is not? I am not sure what I said led you to respond in this way.

[FredZarguna]

Judit was in Playboy. Do a Google image search.

I know! I know!

I've been trying to tell these guys:

[stevio]

Pretending is what this (liberal) generation does best.

[MUDDOG]

Do I win anything for knowing your reference?

In this day of google searches, alas no.

But if this were 1997, ding ding ding!

[MUDDOG]

Google “Alexandra Kosteniuk”. :)

I did. Nice!

[MUDDOG]

If THAT were Judit, then va va va voom! (Unfortunately it’s not.)

In most of the google pictures, Judit looks chubby.

[FredZarguna]

[Organic Panic]

According to black supremacists Africans invented everything yet still live in squalor.

[BlueLancer]

"According to black supremacists Africans invented everything yet still live in squalor."

Because the evil white man not only stole all of those inventions but erased that knowledge from the brains of those poor maligned black folks ...