>character plays chess to display their intelligence.what nitwit started this trend.
>>287897100You've never played chess and it shows.
Certainly not anime
>>287897100Not like it's never been done before
>>287897100Haruhi knows how to use a necktie for it's intended purpose
>>287897144Being good at Chess is not indicative of being 200 IQ genius. Magnus Carlsen for instance is not solving math problems or inventing new life-saving medical procedures. He's just regular person smart.Also next time OP please use a relevant example in anime. Could have at least used that one scene in Code Geass.
>>287897100the rich and wealthy
>character isn't even playing chess but is just fiddling with the pieces while their keikaku unfolds
>>287897144i think hikaru got a 102+ on an iq test. so, nothing crazy impressive.
>>287897144Have you?
>genius character starts talking about schrodinger's cat
>>287897100>character shits on chess
>>287897100Chess is garbage. There's no strategy, only memorization.
>>287899525It's literally impossible to memorize every possible move.
>>287899266Fighting games and chess should break you of the notion that gaming professionals are actually smart. They're just persistent and occasionally have a particular talent
>>287899388The worst version of this is in shit like Steins;Gate where they lampshade and make fun of stories talking about shchrodinger's cat and then talk about it anyways.
>>287900029>Fighting games and chessall inferior to rts
>>287899388That one in particular really kills my immersionStupid people love Schrodinger's cat because it makes them feel like they know something magical, like a super niche cheat code in real lifeSchrodinger himself? The cat thought experiment was invented entirely to explain how bullshit that line of thinking was
>>287898799You're right that chess skill ≠ all-purpose genius, but wrong that it's nothing special.Pro chess players aren’t “regular smart”, they’re extraordinary within a specific cognitive domain, which is still a meaningful indicator of high-level intelligence.Midwits to low IQ people don't play chess at all.
>>287899803It's like two people running from a bear, the one that survives didn't outrun the bear.
>>287897144post elo
>>287900100This never happened.
>>287899525It's mostly pattern recognition.
Why do people like Haruhi? She's obnoxious.
>>287899470Now imagine what she's like when playing a game of life/dokapon boardgame
>>287900100Steins gate was always pseudcore.
>>287899803The horse moves in an "L" shape, I hope that helps
>>287901029wife material
>>287901118The L shape is difficult for me to get used to.I just imagine a cube with the knight at the center, and the corner of the cube is where the knight can move to.
Does anyone know the answerWhere did it startHow come it's always chess and not go for example
>>287901448It's probably a trope as old as chess itself by this point.I don't think you can pinpoint a very first example.
>>287901448it could just be the impression given due to its status as "the game of kings", given from its historic tendency of nobility playing it, and nobles = educated in prior eras.
>>287897100Are there any dumb characters who play chess in anime? This trope doesn't just exist in anime it exist in all stories he only example I can think of where a character is considered dumb in universe but is good at chess is Ron from Harry Potter
>>287899470this is why stratego is the superior game.
>>287901508not chess but farming life in another world the mc plays strip mahjong and loses to every character, even the dog
>>287901448it sounds like something that a pseud philosopher would say. so, it was probably some german.
>>287897144FpbpDubs of truthOP BTFO
