Musk calls chess 'a simple game'; X users joke about Thiel crushing him
Linahuaa · x · 2026-09-16
Replying to a user, Elon Musk said "chess is a simple game that only seems complicated to humans. Nothing wrong with simple games."
Poster Linahuaa quipped that Musk dislikes chess because, growing up when chess skill was thought to correlate with intelligence, he kept getting destroyed by Peter Thiel and other dorks — leaving lasting trauma.
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