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If it is somewhat like chess in mechanics, that's one thing.

What I mean is the "MMA grappling is like chess" or "Overwatch is like chess" or even "crypto day trading is like chess." What they mean is it's a big boy very serious very smart interest for big boy very serious very smart people. smuglord

I hate that, especially because I've recently noticed just how silly and chuddy the largest and loudest parts of the chess community, especially its fandom, really are. The pretenses of detached gravitas really ring hollow when some jerkoff like Kasparov runs his mouth about how he read The Gulag Archipelago and became enlightened. cringe

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Chess is too simple.

It only has a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc. Polytopia addresses these limitations

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

boxing is like chess
if you punch your opponent really hard you win

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] edge@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

The governing bodies of chessboxing are the World Chessboxing Association and the World Chess Boxing Organisation.

The World Chessboxing Association split from World Chess Boxing Organization

lmao there are competing associations.