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Chess player challenges you like a Pokemon trainer meme (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/chess@lemmy.ml

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I was trying to get people to play chess in a discord community so I made a meme about my stuggles and I think its pretty good lol.

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[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wtf are those pieces

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The chess board is ai, the rest is all edits, original meme pic was just the dude crouched ready to fight. I was also not expecting for it to make the hand actually grab the chess board to I was planning on being OK with just a random floating chess board lol

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My god his hand. Chessboxing is a brutal sport

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol I forgot chess boxing was a thing

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

chess boxing?!

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah its freaking wild lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x57DNCZFk

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

okay, but.. why though. lol

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A sport which combines mental and physical prowess at the same time

Yes there are other sports that do this too but thsa doesn't mean this can't also be one of them

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Trainer uses the Sicilian Defense! Its very effective!"

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thats pretty good lol