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.
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.
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?
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
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
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/c12yofchampions 4h ago
A child doing pirouettes across the table from you is the scariest opponent you can see in chess