For anyone unaware of who Kasparov is, he’s a very famous chess World Champion from Russia who held the title for 15 years.
His crime? Not doing an en passant when he had the chance
Putin strikes me as the kind of person who’d lose against a bongcloud opening.
The only winning response to the bongcloud opening is a double bongcloud opening
I’d guess he would be a mediocre player I would lose to. Chess was actually highly regarded as a mind sport in the USSR and even taught in schools. And even if Putin is stupid, there are ways he can ensure I would never win (placing the chessboard on his side of his long table and getting me shot by security if I attempt to approach it).
Watch out, the 61 year old chess grandmaster is going to commit terrorism.
First vibrators up the butt, now bombs? These chess boys are gettin rowdy.
Is that how that one person cheated and Magnus refused to play or something like that?
It’s a hilarious theory with zero evidence to back it up, but equally zero evidence to refute it. There’s beauty in its possibility and ultimate unknowability
If republicans had any integrity at all, this would make them dislike Putin. But, of course, if they had any integrity they wouldn’t be republicans.
Can we not make everything about US politics?
Just as soon as the fascists are gone. They won’t go away on their own, and merely hoping they do is to enable them.
“Can we not make everything about German politics?” --guy in 1938
