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I visted my relatives recently, and i was shocked. At first I though it was a new clash of clans type of trendy game, but its actually chess! The teenagers hav
by jacooper 3y ago
I visted my relatives recently, and i was shocked.
At first I though it was a new clash of clans type of trendy game, but its actually chess!
The teenagers have chess.com installed everyhere and are challenging each other nonstop, sometimes with real chess boards too!
There's social pyramid starting to form, with one of the younger ones conquering the game with no clear challenger, its football but for people who don't like football.
Its fascinating how an old and not very hip game became a crazy trend so fast.
- MuffinFlavored 3y ago> its football but for people who don't like football. What's football for people who don't like football or chess? :)
- nop_slide 3y agoRocket League
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- Lammy 3y agoClam Blitz
- ramraj07 3y agoI’m curious if you like tower defense games (like plants vs. zombies). Those are pretty much the only games I have been able to interest myself into!
- rvba 3y agoStarcraft Brood War Or perhaps Jelle's Marble Runs
- ta8903 3y agoRiichi Mahjong
- jerrre 3y agorunning
- somenameforme 3y agoI'd argue that it's always been football for people who don't like football. What's really changed is that now it's also football for people who do like football! During online events Magnus was often seen watching football (and other sports) [1] on TV while simultaneously playing big money online events. His rest days during live events were often turned into sports days. This has really always been the case, for instance you even had players like Simen Agdestein [2] who was a professional football player and a chess grandmaster - at the same time, but chess has been hounded by dumb and inappropriate stereotypes. You don't need to smart to play, you don't need some amazing memory, or whatever else. It's just a really awesome, enjoyable, and deeply satisfying and rewarding game. [1] - https://youtu.be/6Xdeg-PZOMg?t=16024 https://youtu.be/6Xdeg-PZOMg?t=16024 [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simen_Agdestein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simen_Agdestein
- chongli 3y agoYeah. The only thing you really need to be great at chess is to play a lot, on longer time controls, and to analyze your own games. It’s such a common stereotype that chess is all about memorizing openings, like cramming for exams the rest of your life. It’s not. Cramming is all short term memory and people tend to forget everything a few weeks after the test. That doesn’t work in chess. Great chess players have everything in their long term memory. They can rattle off openings and transpositions like nobody’s business. But they didn’t just study that stuff yesterday. They built it up over years of playing and calculating during games and analyzing the results. It’s much more akin to a great violinist who can play the Sibelius by heart than it is some high school kid cramming for the SAT.
- johnchristopher 3y agoIs that related to The Queen's Gambit tv show ? During the running and a bit after there was an uptick in players in public spaces.
- thom 3y agoI suspect it’s more about streamers on Twitch.
- atlantic 3y agoI talked to a guy who manages a chess club, and he said it was a combination of Queen's Gambit and Covid lockdowns that boosted interest over the past three years.
- jacooper 3y agoProbably not, since they don't watch a lot of movies and English isn't their mother tongue.
- ranguna 3y agoIs it just me, or is this comment AI generated? > and i was shocked. At first I though (...), but its actually (...)! > The (...) installed everywhere (...) each other nonstop, sometimes with real > There's social pyramid starting to form, with one of the younger ones conquering the game with no clear challenger, its football but for people who don't like football. The paragraph above specifically, it sounds coherent, but makes no sense. Pyramid? Pyramid of what? Younger ones? Football what? > Its fascinating how an old and not very hip game became a crazy trend so fast. I think it took quite a few years actually.
- ailef 3y agoTo me it really seems the opposite of an AI generated comment, unless they used GPT2?
- jacooper 3y agoIn high school usually there is some kind of a social class pyramid built on how good you can play football(not in the U.S.). The best one is the coolest and so on. While people who don't play are constantly bullied.
- DrThunder 3y agoIn what school, today, are kids who don't play football constantly bullied? The only place I've seen that happen is in movies from the 80's early 90's.
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