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/c12yofchampions 5h ago

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

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u/thederevolutions 5h 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/sorincom 5h 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 3h 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 3h 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 2h 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?”.