My crowd of people - the ones who can ACTUALLY play chess - would phrase that "some superpower chess match (or game)".
Not sure what a "chessboard contest" is - maybe it's like a pillow fight with cardboard chessboards.
The Dumbshoit-In-Chief doesn't know how to play chess. He can barely read his Teleprompter these days.
But I'll say this much - he sure can whip his followers up into a Christian-killing frenzy, like in Oregon...
When he was working up his comments, he said 'checkerboard' and his aides, after recovering from the facepalms, said "No, Mr. _resident, you're playing chess. Not checkers, CHESS." So that's why it came out that way.
“This is not some superpower chessboard contest. And anybody who frames it in that way isn’t paying very close attention to what’s been happening on the chessboard.”
It's not a 'chessboard contest' but it's being played on a chessboard.
That is superpower stupid that's for sure.