Has anyone here played four player chess? It’s great, and basically the rules are unchanged from standard chess, the board’s slightly extended and you need an extra set of chess pieces but other than that it’s a great evening for four people.
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The space laser will be ready in fourteen turns.
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My ex-wife used to play yahoo chess which would be short games and a lot of them were these “trick” opening plays. Which worked well for short games on a timer. But as she progressed her opponents would also know all these short game opening moves, and there was a bit of a plateau and interest was lost. (Well, live also got busy.)
I remember the day that I learned how to NOT lose a Tic Tac Toe game, and then it became boring. 
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Winning absolutely is the point. Your gimmick wont work against anyone who likes the game, because its easy to counter, and when they do, you are at a disadvantage.
I think that does apply to Musk, though, because he was right time/right place with paypal, and frankly with Tesla, which now soldiers in almost in spite of him. However he confused being not stupid, and fortunate, with being brilliant and prescient. Chess is dumb because it defies his “genius” by not letting him change the rules to give him an advantage.
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No, but someone needs to give the little baby his rusk, to calm him down - teething troubles can be such a pain and anyone suffering them tends to get a bit tantrummy. I wonder what teething troubles are bugging him this week?
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Yeah. We have heard how he plays poker…he keeps buying chips and going all in until he wins. Chess doesn’t let you do that. There’s no way to bluff your way through, no way to get an edge except for playing well. It’s unrealistic in precisely the way that blowhards and charlatans have nothing to hide behind, and someone who doesn’t know chess will lose every time to someone that does. He must despise it.
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I’ve got WarpWar. It’s a great little game with no luck involved, and you can win strategically by manoeuvring your enemy into depleting their missiles faster than you do. A lovely reminder of the days when you could get a decent board wargame for like $5 which would fit into your hip pocket.
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This fucking guy…
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I would guess that he and Trump both like Monopoly because they probably cheat when they play it. “I get to be the banker, and the banker collects a 25% fee of any money that gets paid to the bank.” or some other nonsense.
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Archon was teh bomb
… being “duped” usually involves two people 
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… it was probably the ironically named “Scholar’s mate” — though there are hundreds of possible games of only a few moves
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This reads like someone who has completely lost sight of the fact that it takes actually successful work to get from point A to point B trying desperately to pretend that it’s chess’ fault for being a game of perfect information that makes you show your work at each step.
It’s absolutely true that chess is on the simple side as games go; but it’s not like any 4X just lets you shout “Surprise, space lasers!” at the last moment: having a tech tree, fog of war, and terrain just means that you’ll have needed to decide hundreds of turns earlier whether your position on a randomized and imperfectly known map allowed you to prioritize a relatively powerful but expensive and lategame tech or whether you needed to go horse archers for immediate payoff by turn 50 or pursue a different victory condition entirely.
Reality also features outcomes that absolutely need to be worked toward rather than just pulled from one’s sleeve by magic; but without any of the tuning for fun, fairness, or accessibility to a broad playerbase of varying competence found in 4Xes.
I can’t really tell if he is trying to convince us that he’s still got a masterful gambit that has just been hiding in the fog of war waiting for its moment; or if he’s in the “ignore all signs of imminent collapse and wait for the Wunderwaffe that will definitely save you despite the industrial base required to produce usable amounts of it having been lost a year ago” phase.
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… lovely 
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What do you think he means when he gets all worked up about making humanity a multiplanetary species?
So far the universe’s apparent lack of xenobugs has driven him to seek the ‘other’ required for step 4 at home; but the enthusiasm is there and he’s playing the first 3 entirely straight(though not very competently).
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I don’t think a kid would need to be possessed to kick Elon’s ass at Go. These games do not favor the wildly impulsive.
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Chess with space lasers
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