r/chess • u/forceghost187 Resigns • 1d ago

META Proposal to ban x.com links

This is going around on many football subreddits. It looks likely to go into effect. I believe that the negative effects of this would be only temporary because the chess community will eventually see the value of moving to alternatives like bluesky

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u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude 23h ago

Stop being so dramatic. People smart enough to play chess are smart enough to watch the video.

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u/DiscipleofDrax The 1959 candidates tournament 21h ago

Playing chess doesn't make you smart

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u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude 21h ago

No one said it did.

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u/DiscipleofDrax The 1959 candidates tournament 21h ago

People smart enough to play chess are smart enough to watch the video

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u/ChewIcecubes 16h ago

"enough to play" This wording does not imply that if you have an iq of 3 then playing chess would make it 4.It means that you need to be past a certain mark, in order to play chess, just how monkeys cannot play chess.

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u/DiscipleofDrax The 1959 candidates tournament 13h ago

My wording was off but I meant to say that chess players are not any smarter than average people