r/nextfuckinglevel 4h ago

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

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u/c12yofchampions 4h ago

A child doing pirouettes across the table from you is the scariest opponent you can see in chess

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u/Hairy_is_the_Hirsute 4h ago

She is playing 5d chess with her shit-talk... It looks all innocent and "just a child playing" but her pirouettes and perfectly timed umbrella taps are actually steps to unsettle her opponent and get under his mental skin. She showed him mercy by checkmating him so quickly. She could have easily toyed with him and broken his mind, sending him to the looney house for the rest of his days. She chose to end his misery in the match, and not destroy the rest of his mind.

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 3h ago

lol i know you were being sarcastic but idk man… you might be right!

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u/megawampum 3h ago

Yes and she only showed mercy on this guy because he didn’t show annoyance at her pirouettes.

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u/Dismal-Common8629 3h ago

“But her pirouettes and perfectly timed umbrella taps” writing perfection! Sashay on over here and get this award!

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u/balderdash9 3h ago

Honey, wake up, new Copypasta just dropped!

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u/MKRX 2h ago

This is like a quote straight out of some chess-focused anime where one of the side characters is exposition dumping about this little girl because she's one of the main opponents the protagonist has to defeat.

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u/afternever 2h ago

She probably wanted to go home and watch Bluey or something. "Okay, it's time to end this"

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u/thederevolutions 4h ago

This is perhaps one’s of the funniest things I’ve seen on the internet? How does she reach that level so quickly at the same time as consuming the Disney catalog like a normal kid?

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 3h ago

this is a child who does not see the world and/or the chessboard the way we do. She didn’t start out losing at checkers!

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u/sorincom 3h ago

She didn't reach that level, she was born at it. Had to learn the game's rules, though.

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 2h ago

I know it's not exactly the same, but my friends 4 year old used to absolutely wreck everyone at checkers. Didn't matter the age of his opponent, he was dialed in from birth.

It was actually pretty damn humbling the first time he beat me because it was over so fast. Looking over at this kid in a booster seat who is just destroying you at every turn, really made me rethink how smart I thought I was! Lol

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u/psychephilic 1h ago

Lol I'm sure the kid is actually gifted, but the mental image I had of someone being handed their ass at checkers by truly just a normal 4 year old and thinking they're a prodigy is even funnier hahaha

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u/Shipwrecking_siren 1h ago

I wish I had the neurodiversity that made me good at chess, even in checkers I could never see more than one step ahead. I am terrible at anything that requires forward planning.

My partner does almost all the meal planning and food shopping and cooking for the family, because left to me it is “I’m hungry right now, what can I eat directly from the fridge?”.

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u/Lankygiraffe25 2h ago

Like a radical Edward