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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Hack in Chess?

I would have actually asked you before we did this do you if you actually play chess at all. Well again there's no works in chess so no of course not. No when I was a child I played a few games of chess and then I was introduced to the true game of skill which is Warhammer 40,000 third edition. That's that's the only strategy game I ever needed. You know can consider considering the minds of every single person in this story who plays chess because something fundamentally breaks in your brain when you play chess for this long. It seems like the kind of thing that people get extremely into and then make it the entire core of their identity much like Wartime

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