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i feel like being good at chess is used as shorthand for being really smart so often in fiction i just want a character who's like, a super genius, but explicitly dogshit at chess. like all their friends just assume they're great at it and then they play and get absolutely bodied by an 8 year old and when everyone asks why they're not good at it they're just like "because haven't fuckin studied. like. i'm busy. when would i have time"


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the year is 2034 in crystal tokyo. usagi still can't read. but she routinely demolishes bullet chess tournaments, executing the bongcloud attack with expertise gm hikaru could never have dreamed of. she's later disqualified and banned from the circut for trashtalking too hard to a nine year old.

it feels like it might be too far if they don't even know the rules for chess in any capacity, but I feel like you could get away with them getting flabbergasted over en passant. after all, the rule comes into play explicitly to prevent something that would otherwise be clever