It’s definitely cliche, but I don’t think it’s cringe.
I don’t think it works as well these days, tho. Chess is so fucking old that every possible combination of moves is well known and a good enough player would know the outcome of the game after the first move, so it’s less about intelligence and more about memory.
GO might be a better game. That shit is way more in depth than Western chess and actually takes strategy all the time over memorizing movement patterns.
In some sense this is correct. Chess strategy is fairly well documented, and a skilled player will know quite a bit of how a game will play out based on a given board state.
In another sense, there are something like 10^46 legal board states that can be reached from the starting state across all legal permutations of the game rules.
It’s functionally impossible for a person to know the outcome of a game from the first move.
It’s definitely cliche, but I don’t think it’s cringe.
I don’t think it works as well these days, tho. Chess is so fucking old that every possible combination of moves is well known and a good enough player would know the outcome of the game after the first move, so it’s less about intelligence and more about memory.
GO might be a better game. That shit is way more in depth than Western chess and actually takes strategy all the time over memorizing movement patterns.
In some sense this is correct. Chess strategy is fairly well documented, and a skilled player will know quite a bit of how a game will play out based on a given board state.
In another sense, there are something like 10^46 legal board states that can be reached from the starting state across all legal permutations of the game rules.
It’s functionally impossible for a person to know the outcome of a game from the first move.
Hans Niemann twitches his cheeks
“You’ve already been defeated”