i'm imagining a world where people talk about competitive chess the same way they talk about competitive pokemon and smash
it's fucking stupid when someone challenges me to a game of chess and they bring out a fucking clock. like, the game CLEARLY wasn't designed for that sort of play, it was made for me to take 10 minutes to decide on what pawn to move
"competitive players" making shit like "openings" and "strategies," it's bullshit. Karin said that if I want to win by starting the round by moving the pawn guarding the king, I can, and they're all elitists for telling me that's a bad idea
i just don't get why competitive players don't just go play football if they want to play a real competitive game. chess was a casual boardgame first and foremost, and they had to suck the fun out of it with their rulesets
