[billorites]

Coming this winter to HBO...

[xp38]

[texas booster]

WE HAVE A NEW YOUNGEST CHESS GRANDMASTER!

From adagmator's Chess Channel.

From the comments:

Notably this was Abhi's 70th game in 77 days, as this hunt for the GM title was an absolute marathon.

[mjp]

when are the lefturd loons going to ruin chess by declaring all players equal

[bgill]

How? He beat out everyone.

[JusPasenThru]

I’ll kick his ass.

In tetherball…

[JusPasenThru]

I’ll kick his ass.

In tetherball…

[poconopundit]

Another prodigy, Bobby Fischer, essentially gave up championship play because he felt the sport had been usurped by memorized openings.

Essentially, if a machine can win, he wasn't interested in chess. The thrill was gone -- for him.

Trump and Bobby Fischer Discuss 3D Chess Strategy on Beating the Deep State (fake image)

I believe a variant of chess, Shogi, played in Japan makes machine memory much less a factor. From Wikipedia:

Shogi is similar to chess but has a much larger game tree complexity because of the use of drops [the ability to take captured pieces and redeploy them as your own pieces by dropping them anywhere on the board], greater number of pieces, and larger board size.

By comparison, shogi games average about 140 (half-)moves per game (or 70 chess move-pairs) whereas chess games average about 80 moves per game (or 40 chess move-pairs).

[Hyman Roth]

He is almost as scary looking as Damien. Pull his hair back and look for the mark.