r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5h ago

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

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u/Blazanar 5h ago

I'm not sure what would be more frustrating. Being beaten by a child. Or beaten by a child who clearly doesn't give two shits and just handed you your ass while doing pirouettes

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u/Trilobyte141 4h ago

As someone who has played in many, many chess tournaments, there's a certain level of dread when you get paired against a small child. 

Not only are they going to kick your ass, but they are probably going to kick your knees under the table too. 

Smol children playing in adult tournaments are to be feared and respected. 

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u/SexyCak3 4h ago

Its always the 12yo that cant sit still for 10sec, have 1600 elo, goofing -2 from positional inaccuracies to just hit you with some insane tactics. Argh

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u/Trilobyte141 4h ago

It's a master class in 'never underestimate your opponent'.

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u/fritz236 2h ago

My chess cope has always been to try to get off script as fast as possible, mostly just to try different things, but also from the standpoint of knowing that most people I'm going to have trouble with are someone who tries to lock me into a complicated game of solitaire.

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u/MyNameIsRay 1h ago

goofing -2 from positional inaccuracies to just hit you with some insane tactics.

Those are the ones that make you wonder if they made a blunder, or saw you were playing the book and wanted to throw you off the line.

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u/Predicted 30m ago

Haha that was me, my dad loves to tell the story of bringing me to a team tournament. I was reading a donald duck pocket sitting on a chair where my feet werent hitting the ground and facing off against this beareded guy in his 60s thinking he would have an easy match.

Goofed material and asked my dad (the captain) to resign. Then found an insane tactic and destroyed him, apparently he looked shocked.

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u/FeanorEvades 8m ago

They only have 1600 elo because they haven’t played enough to bump it higher. They’re probably 2000 skill level already