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Smart People Play Chess

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Smart People Play Chess	comment	A common visual shorthand to indicate that a character is smart is to have them play chess, Go, or some similar game. After all, Sesquipedalian Loquacious dialog can disrupt pacing, and not everyone is a chalkboard-toting professor, but it's unobtrusively easy to insert a chessboard into a scene. The character doesn't even have to actually play it; simply lingering nearby with a concentrated gaze is enough to suggest deep thinking. Be sure to expect two intelligent worthy opponents, often leaders with real-life "pieces" to command, talking about recent things to hit home that the chess game resembles plot developments. Of course, even if you've got two genius rivals playing, like Professor X and Magneto, expect the brainiest to dramatically declare "...checkmate!" while numerous pieces are left on the board - which in real life actually means one is awful at chess, not only because they left a fatal opening in their side, but also because they didn't realize and therefore didn't think to resign. While this is a popular trope with The Chessmaster and the Magnificent Bastard, it's not limited to them, and having a dumb character (try to) play chess is good for laughs. A variation is having a pair of idiots play draughts with a chess set. Other strategy games can be substituted depending on the setting (for example, Japanese media generally show cerebral types playing Go, whereas more "hand-on" characters will play Shōgi). To make it easier for the audience to identify with this trope, these games will be shown as very similar to chess, either by visual cues (checkerboard designs, chess-like pieces) or described outright as "<X>-chess" (Wizard chess, Vulcan chess, etc.). If the normally very bookish character really loses his temper, he might end up Flipping the Table instead. This trope is Truth in Television to a degree, as the game relies heavily on strategy and forethought, so it tends to attract and favor people who like an intellectual challenge. However, this is hardly a determiner, because as in most games, one's skill comes mostly from training and experience at said game instead of raw natural intelligence. In fact, the sheer amount of concentration required could make it difficult for the highest of IQs if they happen to have focus problems or are not invested enough in the game. Similarly, being smart at something with more practical application (science, engineering, math, business, even military strategy) does not necessarily translate into being smart at chess (or vice versa). It is also worth pointing out that traditional chess mastery is highly focused on deep absorption of a lot of existing lore, theory and systems that have been constantly written about but remain mostly unchanged since the game became a serious study in the 18th century. As a result, once you've memorized most of what's already out there, you can't help but beat most people who rate under you unless you're having a very bad day or intentionally make a blunder. So, unless you get into weird chess variants, after extreme grand mastery, the challenge and surprise potential of the game reaches a plateau. See also Human Chess, Chess Motifs, Surprise Checkmate, Game of Nerds, Genius Book Club and Pastimes Prove Personality. Compare and contrast Crazy People Play Chess and Cunning People Play Poker. Chess may be looked at as a Book Smart type of game while poker is a Street Smart game. However, it is not out of the question to find someone skilled in both. See also Hollywood Board Games, when playing Tabletop Games, in general, serves as characterization.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_109f7814	comment	The Sherlock episode "The Empty Hearse" has a scene cleverly subverting this: a scene opens with Sherlock and Mycroft clearly playing chess, and they proceed to banter for an entire scene while still clearly playing chess. The end of the scene zooms the camera out, revealing that the chess board was on the other side of the room, and they were actually playing the kid's game Operation.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_11dbc3d	comment	Mori Kibbutz from Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony plays and easily wins chess game with his brother while doing a boxing workout. Then he boasts about his academic achievements.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_121022b1	comment	The Grace of Kings: The Strategist Gin Matozi is a master of a board game that appears to be Go and promotes it to her troops to demonstrate the importance of keen tactical thinking. She prefers to play the long game, taking time to learn her opponent's style and then slowly crushing them away.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_12557dc4	comment	Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: In addition to Lelouch, Coran is also an avid chess player, as was Allura's father.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_127432c9	comment	Wu Assassins: Discussed in the season 1 finale by Alec McCullough. He acknowledges that many people consider Chess to be the ultimate game of strategy, but he doesn't share that believe and thinks Go deserves that title instead.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_13be67c	comment	The Last Son: In the last chapter of Book One, when Superman visits Doctor Doom's castle in Latveria for the first time, he finds him playing a game of chess against himself. After they talk to each other for a bit, Superman moves a black rook to take a white bishop and leaves. Doom gazes at the board and smiles, tipping his white king as it was the checkmate move.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_144ea6e4	comment	The Oliver Parker film adaptation of Othello has Iago (played by Kenneth Branagh) illustrating his plan with an actual chessboard.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1861f45b	comment	The Starcraft novel Liberty's Crusade shows Arcturus Mengsk as an avid chess player, complete with a chess set in his command center. He also gives a comprehensive deconstruction of Chess Motifs in real strategy: chess games consist of two sides with exactly equal forces facing off on a flat field, nothing like any real war, nor does any situation ever crop up where the board is suddenly invaded by green pieces attacking both black and white a la the current situation where the terrans are under attack by the protoss and zerg.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_19328272	comment	In the first of episode of Scorpion, the team realize that Ralph is a budding genius when he beats Sylvester, a chess Grand Master; by the time Paige is alerted to what's going on, Ralph has Sylvester in checkmate in eight moves. Using sugar packets on a non-checkerboard counter top. Mark Collins is also mentioned to be good at chess, but not so much because of being good at playing the game as because he's good at mind games and forcing people into playing badly.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_19ac551d	comment	X-23: Laura Kinney is quite intelligent and highly-educated and is also known to play chess. Laura claims that she never loses when beginning a match against Storm during her solo series.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_19d740d8	comment	The Great Mouse Detective: As the title character is walking across a chessboard, he stops to shove one of the pieces into a checkmate position.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1ad4d09c	comment	In A Beautiful Mind, the genius John Nash is seen playing Go with another really smart guy. When John loses, he has an emotional reaction that is easily mistaken for being a Sore Loser. However, it's actually the beginning of a revelation that will eventually land him a Nobel Prize.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1b9ff2f3	comment	In π, Max and his mentor play Go, which factors into several mathematical and visual motifs.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: In Uncanny X-Men, Professor Xavier occasionally played chess against some of his students. Hank McCoy and Kitty Pryde have been known to beat him on occasion.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1c296808	comment	Used in Rise of the Planet of the Apes to show how Caesar's intelligence is progressing way beyond that of an ordinary chimpanzee. Also how he is able to plan ahead, think strategically and utilise subordinates with differing skills and abilities. Just in case this will come in handy later.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1d14f277	comment	In Shadowchasers: Torment, Karl, the brains of the group, not only plays chess, he invented a holographic chess set based on the one in A New Hope (which is being marketed by The Noble Collection and will be available for the holiday season, the narrative claims). In one chapter, he plays chess with Jalal while they are waiting for the results of a test, but Jalal wins. (Karl later comments that nobody can beat him at it, but then again, Jalal has been playing for almost a thousand years.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1d698aef	comment	Vampire Knight: Kaname.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1f7d1392	comment	Aida from Unreal II: The Awakening is stated to be a 3-D Chess champion, and the board in her quarters looks vaguely familiar
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Smart People Play Chess / int_1f9f4419	comment	In The Thing (1982), R.J. MacReady is introduced playing chess against the computer. When he loses, he responds by pouring his drink into the computer, destroying it. Throughout the movie, MacReady establishes himself as the savviest of the crew and ends up being (possibly) one of the Final Guys. Also foreshadows the film's climax. . . MacReady is the kind of man who'd rather burn the board than lose the game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_219a8958	comment	Atrus and Sirrus play a game of correspondence chess in Myst IV: Revelation, who are, respectively, the Absent-Minded Professor and Manipulative Bastard of the series. In the (chess) game, Atrus checkmates his opponent with a piece that he hadn't noticed prior which is very similar to how Atrus outsmarted him in the (video) game. The real purpose of the (chess) game, however, was so that Sirrus could get a sample of the Nara chess pieces to help him figure out how to destroy the linking chamber.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2215552	comment	Hellraiser: Inferno opens with Detective Joseph Thorne playing speed chess against a friend of his to show his intelligence. On top of that, he has a phone conversation halfway through without interrupting his game and goes right back to playing a basketball game after he trumps his opponent.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_22211d68	comment	Sweets on Bones is a prodigy who was a chess master in college. He gets drawn back into the chess world during a case where a player was killed. Heâ€™s still better than most of the group members.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2275c659	comment	One episode of House has a prodigy chess player as a patient who plays a game with Dr. House. He would have lost, but he bluffs House out, which results in him technically winning.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2297bb85	comment	Prom Wars: The academically-inclined Selby students win the chess competition of the games.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_22d74b2e	comment	Cluny the Scourge, in Redwall, makes a vow to himself to learn to play chess while his Evil Plan is falling into place, going by the logic that since his real-life tactics work so well he'll be unbeatable. He never does get the chance to try, though.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_23465101	comment	Similarly, the cold open of an episode of Wings comes upon Lowell and Roy in the middle of a game. When a frustrated Roy demands that Lowell make a move, as they've been sitting there for 30 minutes, a confused Lowell says, "I thought it was your turn!". An even more annoyed Roy snaps at him to move. . .and sure enough, Lowell instantly checkmates him.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2350acad	comment	Subverted in Cheers episode "Spellbound". Frasier the egghead plays resident numbskull Woody at chess, and Woody beats him every time. Frasier suggests that he is an idiot savant (although Woody does not know what that means).
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Smart People Play Chess / int_23667612	comment	Mean Guns: After setting the stage for all the enemies of the Syndicate to kill each other, Vincent Moon retires to a room so he can monitor their progress. He's often seen hovering over a vintage chessboard to portray him as some sort of Diabolical Mastermind, though we never actually see him play it.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_251e67c5	comment	Justice League of America: In one issue of Justice League, Mr. Terrific plays two games of chess against Green Lantern and Black Canary... blindfolded! Somewhat downplayed, as it turned out to be a testâ€”Michael was playing white against Hal and black against Dinah, and playing them both against each other◊.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_25302c90	comment	When Tannehill first meets Chenault in Once Upon a Spy, Chenault's genius is demonstrated by having him in the middle of a chess game against his supercomputer Fred. He loses.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2547d61f	comment	White Collar frequently depicts Neal and Mozzie playing chess. An oddly organized pursuit for anarchistic Mozz.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_269f5f7d	comment	Maid-Sama!: Hirofumi Koganei challenges several Seika Academy students to a game of chess to prove his superior intelligence, noting that he is the fourth-best player in Japan. Takumi Usui curbstomps him handily.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_26dd903b	comment	In pre-Crisis days, Superman kept a giant chess-playing robot in the Fortress of Solitude that could play at super speed. Because why not?
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Smart People Play Chess / int_27777760	comment	The first couple seasons of Eureka prominently feature the all-genius townsfolk playing chess outside CafÃ© Diem, and when Henry is in prison, Jack refers to his visits with Henry as his "weekly Chess whipping", implying that Jack doesn't have a head for the game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_28286c57	comment	The Rise of Kyoshi: Most of the movers and shakers of the world play pai sho, and skill in the game is often equated to political acumen, with Avatar Kuruk's friend, Jianzhu, being both a skilled player apt to think in pai sho metaphors while he keeps thinking up and laying down a series of desperate plays to keep hold on the power he's accumulated since Kuruk's death, which is threatened by Kyoshi's refusal to be subjected to his authority after she watched him kill two of the people she loves most. Avatar Kuruk himself was an avid player, which is constantly drawn attention to as the game is supposedly the one thing he took seriously. This turns out to be foreshadowing for the reveal that Kuruk, while still the fun-loving, 'go-with-flow' Avatar he describes himself as in the series, was actually a very intelligent, dedicated hunter of dark spirits who threatened to endanger the humans in the material world, and he was shielding his friends from this knowledge to prevent them from damaging their own spirits by joining him in these incredibly draining fights. It's his friends, Jianzhu and Kelsang, who end up identifying Yun as Kuruk's reincarnation based on the fact that they watched him execute all of the intricate plays that Kuruk thought up and only ever confided to them, and Yun is constantly lauded as being a much better diplomat and politician the distracted Kuruk was. Meanwhile, Kyoshi, Kuruk's actual reincarnation, does not play pai sho, and this demonstrates her complete lack of political skill. In the sequel, she's rather annoyed that everyone is constantly asking her if she plays.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_288d084d	comment	The Queen's Gambit is about a female chess prodigy and many of the other characters are her chess-playing friends and opponents, all of whom are highly intelligent. She's portrayed as a genius, and only the world's top players can beat her.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_28d474c9	comment	In The Sense of Wonder, autistic savant Pierre plays chess with Jules. When Jules is busy, he plays chess with himself.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2a2da457	comment	Gwendolyn from Beat the Devil is very dramatic and given to flights of fantasy, but she's definitely much smarter than her dimwit of a husband, as shown in the early scene where she thrashes him at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	One episode in the third season of Gotham shows Nygma watching a chess tournament, pointing out moves and muttering that anyone can be a grandmaster these days, implying that he himself is very skilled at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In Heroes, Sylar manipulates Danko into cooperating with him while toying with the pieces on a chessboard.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2bf30529	comment	In the Mysterious Ways episode "The Big Picture," Declan asks Miranda (his assistant and a very intelligent physics grad student) to play chess with him. She replies that last time she beat him in nine moves.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2ce3bcd4	comment	Middlegame: Dodger is a genius who both publishes prizewinning mathematical proofs and does a tour as a competitive chess champion before her teens. She eventually quits the circuit because the other chess players devote their lives to studying the game, whereas she, as a human embodiment of the universal force of mathematics, can beat them all by pure intuition.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2da80bd2	comment	Wolf Hall has Thomas Cromwell getting a Surprise Checkmate against Tom Seymour in Calais (though Seymour isn't quite as smart as Cromwell). Cromwell's chessboard is usually seen on his desk when he's talking to someone at his home of Austen Friars—such as when he's dismantling Lady Pole, Lady Cortenay, and Bishop Fisher's attempt to use Elizabeth Barton to destabilize Henry.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Wake the Dead", Shayera Hol and Aquaman are seen finishing a game of chess. Aquaman wins and taunts Shayera over both her loss and the quiet way she acquiesced, and the taunts themselves get no reaction. His dialogue reveals that the game itself was not the point, but that he is trying to get her to break out of the funk she had been in since the end of "Starcrossed", as she used to regularly beat Batman when they would play. Amazo, the super-intelligent evolving android that at this point in the series is nearly a god, also likes to play chess with Aquaman. Aquaman never actually beats Amazo, but is at least commended for taking longer to inevitably checkmate.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_303eced	comment	Aelita and Yumi are also seen playing Go at the beginning of one episode.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Shikamaru Nara plays shogi which is also known as Japanese chess. It was through getting beat all the time by him that his teacher Asuma learned that he was a lot smarter than he was letting on. His father plays it better than him, and needless to say, he is also smarter than Shikamaru.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_312b7431	comment	In Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold, Captain Robert Desoto of the Hood, Riker's former commanding officer, is a champion-level Go player. His reputation is such that he could never find anyone to play him, so he resorted to teaching some of his naive staff the game...including Riker, a "brash young lieutenant who didn't like games where he couldn't bluff", and his current first officer, which he regretted as she went from the standard handicap to regularly beating him inside of a year.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3167d0b9	comment	In the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) episode "The Roboto Gambit", Man-at-Arms builds Roboto to play chess with Man-e-Faces (because he can beat everyone too easily in his super-smart robot form). In later episodes, Roboto plays chess with Orko and Sy-Clone.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_31a48eed	comment	In The Outer Limits (1995) episode "I, Robot", Leonard Nimoy's character, a retired lawyer, plays chess a lot. He comes out of retirement because it bores him.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: A heated match ended in 1 win for Mustang, after 97 losses to Grumman, with 15 draws. Grumman and Mustang are both shown to be cunning strategists, with Grumman, in his capacity as Chessmaster, having a big impact on the final arc. Breda and Falman also have signs of this.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3396e074	comment	Maris Stella: When discussing Yuu Akimoto's various accomplishments, it's mentioned that he once beat a Grandmaster while blindfolded and not being told his opponent's moves. He claimed he could tell which pieces were being moved and where based on sound alone.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_33fd91eb	comment	In Hackers, Lord Nikon and Cereal Killer is casually hanging in Central Park, discussing the massive world-wide hack they're about to pull off. Just as the time comes up, Nikon reaches over and perform check-mate to the guy sitting at the park chess-board and skates off to Grand Central.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3557008d	comment	In Tom Riddle's Schooldays, Tom establishes his intellectual dominance on the train to Hogwarts by winning a chess match against Archibald Aardwolf with a Surprise Checkmate.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_37a9b865	comment	Nightfall (1990): Theremon observes some of the Observatory scientists playing stochastic chess while waiting for the eclipse to occur.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Athena is playing chess with pieces shaped like the characters against her owl, an extension/reflection of her own will when Ares comes to see what she wants. She continues playing throughout their almost friendly argument and Ares smirks when he sees the owl move the piece that's clearly Ares before Ares agrees to do what his sister is asking of him.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_398c3332	comment	One scene in John Adams shows Benjamin Franklin playing chess... in a bathtub with Madame HelvÃ©tius.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_39f32df7	comment	Kronsteen in From Russia with Love is an actual chess grandmaster as well as being SPECTRE's chief strategist. His introduction shows him defending his title as champion of Russia when SPECTRE (SMERSH in the book) calls him into the meeting; he delays long enough for his opponent to run out of time before heading off.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_39fe00f1	comment	Happens twice in Dragon Age: Inquisition: First between Cullen and Dorian (after which you can take Dorian's place, and play an offscreen game with Cullen), and again during banter between Iron Bull and Solas. The latter is noteworthy because it's played without a board - the two of them complete an entire game in their heads while on the road. Bonus points because their mental game is based on a real-life chess match: The Immortal Game. Makes even more sense since one of the players is apparently a god.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami: Multiple: Creasse, the thinker of her sisters, plays chess with Tserk, the tentacle monster. Ami, who plays the Adushul version, called "Kingdoms", which differs a bit from chess, but it's a game of strategy, and she won the first five games, against the person who introduced the game to her.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3ac755dd	comment	Beauty and the Beast: As a gag to show how Book Dumb Gaston is, he is shown losing a game of chess and angrily smacking the board away while the lyrics to his song claim "no one matches wits like Gaston".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3b182a22	comment	Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In the episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", an alt-timeline version of Captain Kirk in 21st-century Toronto earns some money by hustling games of chess. He effortlessly wins all of them before dismissing the traditional 2-D game as "idiot's chess". When Prime Kirk is re-introduced in "Lost in Translation", he watches Spock playing 3-D chess against Nurse Chapel and points out when the Vulcan makes a mistake that costs him an easy win.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3b34143f	comment	Generally subverted in the Harry Potter books. In Wizarding Chess, strategic mastery knowledge of Chess is generally less important than gaining the loyalty of your sentient chess pieces such that they'll actually do what you tell them. Ron Bilius Weasley is noted as being skilled at chess despite not being particularly bright otherwise. In the first book he successfully beats a magically powered sentient chess set, set up by one of the Hogwarts professers, in what Dumbledore describes as "the best-played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in years." Outside his chess competence Ron is an average to below average student, despite fans often viewing him as a complete idiot. Hermione Granger is by far the most intelligent of the group, but is not very good at chess and doesn't like the concept of it.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3bce4381	comment	Played for laughs in Trigun. In one episode of the anime, Wolfwood is playing chess and losing badly. Milly walks up to the board, looks at it for a second, and moves one piece. Wolfwood's opponent immediately resigns. When asked about it, Milly explains one of her older brothers had her play with him regularly growing up. This is one of several hints that Milly is smarter than she acts.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3d226d19	comment	Escape From St. Mary's: This is the game of choice for the "A level" students in the game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3ddddb25	comment	Xiaolin Showdown: Raimundo shows a surprising knack for it while playing against a talking dinosaur with a British accent.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, this is used to establish tactical skill. In an anime-original scene, Commander Dot Pixis is introduced playing chess with a nobleman and losing terribly. Then his subordinate arrives with news of the crisis in Trost, sending the nobleman into a panic. He demands Pixis stay with him, and protect his lands since he's not smart enough to even win a simple game of chess. One of the subordinates points out that Pixis always lost the games on purpose, to avoid offending his host. He quickly proves himself a brilliant commander on the field. Reiner and Bertolt are shown to play chess during their downtime. Side material notes they are among the few people capable of providing a challenge to Guile Hero Armin, the resident tactical genius of the series. This becomes an important detail later on when the Survey Corps are preparing to face Reiner and Bertolt in battle. Eren points out that Reiner always excelled as a strategist during training, making him a Genius Bruiser.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_40809984	comment	Coreline: Recurring character Roger Hackett is a played with example: Blizzards And Bookstores showcases that he has spent hundreds of hours studying how to play, but regardless he remains a mediocre player and an acquaintance of him (which Roger learnt to play for in order to entertain him) has decided he needs to sabotage his own games and allow Roger to win at least a few times in order to prevent a permanent Rage Quit. This "acquaintance" is an Alternate Self of HAL 9000', which also showcases how outrageously outclassed Hackett is.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4150349a	comment	From Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, after the two of them watch the love interest head off to join the title character...
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Smart People Play Chess / int_41b0198a	comment	Subverted in The Dresden Files, where Harry Dresden mentions that his preferred method of judging a being's intelligence is to play a game of checkers with them.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_43576f5	comment	Jared Padalecki of Supernatural fame. He tends to come off as rather silly at times, yet during one DVD episode's commentary, the director mentions his complete and utter destruction of chess opponents.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_43583895	comment	Robocop The Series has it subverted, but also expects it to be the case. Subverted in the pilot episode of the evil scientist needs a human brain to operate his new Wetware CPU, so he tries using the brain of a chess-playing homeless man, thinking that chess skill will translate into useful ability. It doesn't work at all, and he instead winds up using the brain of his highly intelligent secretary. The later episode "The Human Factor" plays it straight, where Robocop visits his father's home and eventually plays a few turns of chess. Murphy says that machines may know all the moves but are actually predictable. Robocop has a quick flashback to a specific "velakonski gambit", allegedly showing the same game layout. Robocop makes two moves, puts black into check, and the opponent wanted to know where he learned that move.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: Ed is either played straight or a subversion. She is one of the best hackers in the solar system and can play a week-long game of chess against a 96-year-old master (as shown in "Bohemian Rhapsody"), but outside of that, she is a Cloudcuckoolander who can barely stay focused on anything. Ultimately, she seems like a Genius Ditz: master at hacking and chess, terrible (or at least on another thought process) with everything else. The aforementioned chess master comments that Ed is either an idiot or a genius so she may just be The Wonka; chess is about being unpredictable and if Ed is one thing, it's unpredictable. In Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Jet and Spike are playing Shogi. Jet is lecturing on how it is necessary to plan ahead, both in the game and in their work as bounty hunters, yet is having trouble against Spike, who never plans ahead at all. Then Ein, a dog, comes along and makes a brilliant move on Jet's behalf.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_459ca4de	comment	Galaxy Angel: Zigzagged for Tact Mayers, the protagonist of the first trilogy. Chess is his favorite pastime, as shown when he buys a set for Shiva so they can play together, and in Milfeulle's route he works as a chess instructor after he leaves the military. However, he's consistently depicted as Brilliant, but Lazy preferring to take naps or find ways to avoid doing his job, unless the situation calls for it where he proves to be a genius tactician in the battlefield. On the other hand, Tact's best friend Lester Coolduras was more academically-inclined and graduated at the top of their class, but he mentions in Chitose's route that unlike Tact he doesn't play chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man: The Daughters of Amazon are led by Victoria, a master of chess. However, she is never seen actually playing chess, only talking about her past accomplishments. This leads into a recurring theme of the series of never quite knowing if characters are telling the truth about themselves or not.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_492d7923	comment	In Cloud Atlas, as Sonmi mentions that, while under study at the university, she and her handler spent most of their evenings playing Go, as an incidental example of her rapidly rising intelligence.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4b790c79	comment	Iron Man: Backgammon variant, in the cave. Using scraps (like nuts and bolts), presumably from a box.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4d2d6ce4	comment	One of the Nod mission briefings in the original Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn has Kane playing a game of chess while explaining the upcoming mission to the player.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4d8e5ec	comment	A non-chess example. One one episode of The Daily Show, Neil deGrasse Tyson has a cameo to answer one of Jon's questions. Someone handed him a Rubik's Cube as a prop just before he walked onto the set. He solved it while answering the question and dropped it on the desk before he walked off set. Also from the Daily Show: Trevor Noah ("because I'm white. I'll go first") played pawn to D4, and Jon Stewart ("I guess 'cos I'm Jewish, I'll go second") replied by dropping a small plastic washing basket on the pawn and shouted "Oh snap! Mousetrap! Checkmate! USA! USA!".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4e45b093	comment	One episode of The Big Bang Theory had Sheldon and Leonard play 3D chess to demonstrate Leonard's ignorance. Sheldon also made a 3-player chess board and new pieces. And then there's chess surrounded by laser burglar alarms... Leonard teaches Penny to play plain chess... and loses to her in their first match.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4e588869	comment	In Darwin's Soldiers, Hicks mentions Shelton was chess champion in a contest at Pelvanida.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4e5b6428	comment	In Making Money, the workers at the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Blind Letter Office (who have to figure out what "addresses" like "My brofer John, tall, by the brij" actually mean) are said to spend their breaks playing chess in their heads.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4f1f3628	comment	Inverted in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Maddie is smart and London is really, really dumb, yet Maddie can't beat London at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4f266e2a	comment	Star Trek (IDW): Most of the command crew plays the multi-dimensional chess game in their spare time, including Kirk, Spock and Uhura. According to one issue, Uhura managed to beat Spock!
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Smart People Play Chess / int_4f847312	comment	One Nero Wolfe mystery focuses on an exhibition chess game in which the guest player (playing simultaneous blind games against a local chess club) is murdered. One person brought into Wolfe's office is uncomfortable confiding in him without having first played a chess game with him. Wolfe (who does not enjoy chess) responds, "Very well. I have no board or pieces." Only a few moves later, his opponent notes Wolfe's last move was commonly known as inferior to a specific alternative... and is then forced to agree with Wolfe that unlike the conventional play he'd of course rehearsed the counter to, he can no longer keep track of the game in his head and concedes.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_513f5832	comment	During Spock's memory test in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, he is shown playing spherical chess on a computer screen. Given that it is Spock, the computer stood no chance.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5320ab5e	comment	A different version of this trope is seen with war games (the kind played on a board). Two examples include a Columbo movie in which the killer used the playing of the game as an alibi (he'd actually set up the game hours beforehand) and an episode of The Equalizer where a former general set up a complicated revenge against McCall's client. In both examples the villain becomes unstuck due to the game — the misplacement of a single soldier exposes the false alibi in Columbo. The general, once his Evil Plan has failed, plans to kill the Equalizer and his client with the cannons (rigged to fire poisoned darts) on his model of Pickett's Charge. Only a single cannon fires though — at the general, as McCall has got at the model beforehand. The dying general is impressed, and concedes the game to his opponent. For the record, Columbo himself seems to subvert the trope; he's a mastermind police detective who hides his genius under a Book Dumb facade, and yet he seems to prefer checkers. In the episode in question, while the killer and victim were antagonizing each other over chess pieces, we soon cut to Columbo and his dentist heavily engrossed in a checkers game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_547f6bce	comment	In an episode of Family Ties, Steven, tired of losing at chess to Alex, studies the game copiously and finally manages to beat him. However, Alex is out of the room when Steven checkmates him and Steven accidentally knocks over the board in celebration.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_55f4b47d	comment	In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, Nobody Beats G.I. Joe! discusses this along with Cunning People Play Poker: Cadet Kaltberg, after losing a chess game to Flint, talks about how games like chess, poker and go can also apply to battlefield tactics, alongside the people who are good at them. Flint is a Rhodes scholar, an expert tactician and an international master at chess, experts at poker include field commander Duke, intelligence officers Scarlet and Lady Jaye, CIA operative Chuckles and lawyer Turnabout, while expert engineer Menlo and Lifeline, who has the brain for leadership, are both talented at go. A subversion, however, is General Hawk, who always loses to Flint at chess but is absolutely the better tactician, as his tactical specialty involves thinking outside the box and looking for the unexpected angles, which regimented games can't reflect as well as the battlefield.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, tactical genius and top paladin O-Chul plays Go. One of the first signs the Monster in the Darkness is smarter than everyone (itself included) thinks is that when O-Chul teaches him Go he picks it up very quickly.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_58d80a4a	comment	Jingo uses a Fictional Counterpart of Scrabble for much the same purpose; Leonard of Quirm, while undoubtedly a smart person (and the inventor of The Make-Words-With-Tiles-That-Have-All-Been-Mixed-Up Game), isn't as strategically minded as Vetinari, who ends up winning the game. As for Colon and Nobby, they did terribly. (Although this might not be entirely because they're stupid; at one point Colon freaks out trying to think of a word he can use that doesn't give him a higher score than Vetinari.)
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Smart People Play Chess / int_59fa5c45	comment	The protagonist of the hitman film A Taste of Killing and Romance is shown fiddling with a chessboard at one point to plan his next hit. Said character is a Professional Killer who's really good at his job.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Mei is a straight-A student and regularly plays chess with her neighbour Mr. Gao according to the film's Novelization.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Subverted in Saints Row: The Third with the chess matches between Pierce and Oleg, which end up being a recurring theme in the story. Oleg is considered to be an intellectual, while Pierce is widely considered to be a dumbass, but their chess matches are usually close until the Boss interrupts them in some manner. Oleg even intentionally dropped a bag of equipment on a chessboard where he was losing, ruining the game. Although, as the series-long Butt-Monkey, just because Pierce is considered to be a dumbass doesn't mean he is one. In an alternate universe where the Saints never existed, Pierce became leader of the Vice Kings and took over Stilwater himself by bribing his way to victory.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5c897f4a	comment	In Schlock Mercenary, A.I.s play chess to test their relative intelligence, particularly Ennesby and Haban. You can tell when one of them is seriously outclassed because his opponent will be able to predict the entire game before the first move is played.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	On the Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Make it Happen", the Russo's kids have to choose an alternate career in the case of they don't become wizards. Justin's first idea is to make money by travelling the world defeating robots at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5d21fab8	comment	In Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell is a skillful chess player, befitting his role as The Chessmaster for Henry VIII. He teaches his also quite smart ward and protege Rafe Sadler, and early on they lament that they need to find other opponents because they know each other's game so well they always wind up in stalemates. Cromwell also pulls off a Surprise Checkmate against Tom Seymour, although Seymour isn't as intelligent as Cromwell is.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5d354f8	comment	In Red Dwarf, the highly-advanced AI Holly, with an official IQ of 6000, plays chess — but not very well. (Although the only time we've actually seen the outcome of one of his games, it subsequently turned out that he'd been playing to lose, and against himself.) Before the 3 million year narrative jump, Holly was playing chess by correspondence with a computer named Gordon, who had an IQ of 8000. In "Better Than Life", the crew intercepts a load of mail from 3 million years ago, which includes a video of Gordon declaring the first move, then having trouble turning off the recording device.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5e150650	comment	White Wolf's Exalted brings us Gateway, a Chess-extract used to teach military strategy and politics to the children of the Scarlet Dynasty. Most members of the Dynasty are Terrestrial Exalts... superhumans with sometimes reflexive mastery over elements, regular skills (each individual with their own 'prodigy' knacks), and lives that often extend up to and beyond three centuries. the 'Hunting Cat' rule variation allows Gateway to serve as a meditative game of solitaire, while monks use the 'Spirit Frog' rule variation as an allegory to teach philosophy and ethics. It might be aptly said that Gateway is what Chess would be if Chess were designed by people who had gotten bored with Chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5e91c79	comment	In Resident Evil 0, James Marcus, the brilliant, but completely insane scientist who discovered the T-Virus, was apparently a big chess fan. His office in the Management Training Facility not only has a board set up on his desk, but an entire portion of the room is designed to look like a giant board, complete with movable pieces.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5ecbc244	comment	Bamse: Skalman plays chess - generally against himself since other people aren't much of a challenge.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_5ed778cd	comment	Twice Round the Daffodils: Henry, who believes himself to be mentally superior to all with him in Ward V, loves Chess and is always trying to get the others to play with him. Averted with George, a seemingly simple country farmer. While at first, he keeps confusing it with Checkers, Dora sends him An Invitation to Chess, a book that gives him the skills to become a master at the game, even winning a game against Henry in just about a minute.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_630755ab	comment	Several really smart characters in the Codex Alera are fond of the chesslike game ludus. Tavi learned to play from Ambassador Varg (one of several Chessmaster types), and also plays against Worthy Opponent Nasaug... in the middle of a battle between their armies. Tavi even later includes beating Nasuag at Ludus in extended boast about his seemingly impossible successes and victories.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6364da81	comment	In Sun & Moon, this is used to set up Celestia's intellectual prowess, particularly in relation to Luna. Not as much prowess as Aqua, though.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_643cd5f7	comment	In Cube Zero, Wynn is prominently shown playing chess with Dodd and beating him at every turn to show off his advanced mental faculties. He can envision the course of an entire game in his head, which is a Chekhov's Skill for when he ends up in the Cube himself.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_66989d0	comment	In Banacek, Banacek and Felix are often shown playing chess. Banacek can mentally recreate the position of pieces on the board for a game he played several days ago.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_66fd192f	comment	The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) has characters incarnated by Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen play sexy chess prior — until he suggests they "play a different game."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6723753c	comment	Lex Luthor's introduction in Superman: Red Son has him winning fourteen simultaneous games of chess on his coffee break, while also reading Machiavelli in the original Italian and teaching himself Urdu by tape "to keep my mind occupied". He also only becomes truly obsessed with defeating Superman after a clone of the latter beats him at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_68399c48	comment	In The Folding Knife, the Magnificent Bastard protagonist Basso is a very skilled chess player, so good in fact that after his wife notices he's letting her win, he challenges himself to lose on purpose in a way that obscures this.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_691be369	comment	On The X-Files, child psychic Gibson Praise is first seen playing an adult in a chess tournament. Subverted because it's not a proof of his great intelligence, but the fact that he can read minds and has alien DNA.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_69331e52	comment	Hive Mind (2016): Lucas, the tactical team leader, and Telyn, the tactical team's attack specialist, both played competitive chess. Lucas stopped playing competitively after he became team leader, but still plays casually and completely trounces Amber unless she reads his mind.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6956d9bf	comment	The Swan Princess: Downplayed. Derek and Bromley play chess in one scene. Derek, while not dumb, is relatively simple-minded and Bromley actually loses while cheating.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: Obadiah Stane was pretty chess-obsessed, extending the metaphor to his mooks he employed. The movie gives him a pretty neat set to toy around with. One scene in The Invincible Iron Man has Tony Stark and Reed Richards playing each other on about ten different chessboards at the same time.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6a8d182d	comment	Spenser: Played with. Spenser is talking to Del Rio and Chollo about a case he's on, and they are playing chess as he is talking to them, taking their time between moves and nodding at what the other does. However, his internal monologue reveals: "I didn't play chess. I had no idea what they were doing."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6ada53b1	comment	It isn't enough that Charlie Eppes of NUMB3RS could multiply four-digit numbers in his head when he was three, graduated from high school and entered Princeton at 13, completed his bachelors degree in three years and is a multiple Ph.D. No, just so we'll know he's really smart, he regularly beats his father and his former academic advisor (both portrayed as above-average intelligence) at chess, too. (But he's Not Too Perfect: he doesn't do so well at Scrabble.)
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6af06d18	comment	In 12 Rounds, the villain interrupts a chess game between two random strangers playing by the street, and defeats the other player in four or so moves.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6af83614	comment	A Thing of Vikings: Hiccup plays King's Fist and later shatranj, a predecessor to chess. He sometimes loses because he is loath to sacrifice any of his pawns, reflecting his personal philosophy of protecting everyone he can. Viggo plays shatranj and teaches it to Fishwings, who he considers an intellectual equal (not least because she often ends up beating him). Invoked. Drago teaches the Kagan how to play Go, known as Hwigi at the time, because the Han considered the ancient game to be one of the four arts of gentlemanly scholars. Drago believes that if the Kagan can demonstrate that he is a good player, the Han will be more likely to accept his rule.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6af88ae9	comment	Future Card Buddyfight: In the show's sequel series Ace, Seiji Kido is an unrivaled chess prodigy able to beat a state-of-the-art AI in chess. Anyone who knows anything about Chess knows that a well-made AI is essentially impossible to beat because the number of moves it can plan ahead for in the blink of an eye is completely incomprehensible to the human mind. Cue Subaru Hoshiyomi, who is an unparalled genius, beating him at chess and forming the basis of Seiji's Freudian Excuse. Interestingly, Yuga Mikado, who has earned a reputation for being a King of Games, states that chess is one of the few games he's not very good at. He also seems to have inherited his father's intuition-based style of Buddyfighting.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6c1d09b2	comment	In Fallout 2, you meet a Mad Scientist known only as the Professor in the town of Broken Hills with a genetically engineered intelligent Radscorpion that wears glasses and communicates using Morse code. You can challenge it to a game of chess, but it's impossible to win unless you learn the Flying Liver Attack technique from the Professor's talking spore plant, at which point the Radscorpion goes into a murderous frenzy and try to kill you.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: Xavier and Magneto in the first film, X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past, and alluded to again in X-Men: The Last Stand at the very end where Erik is at a park with a chessboard. The chess motif is there to establish the attitudes of both men as The Chessmaster, and it's a metaphor for their struggle over the future of mutantkind. In X-Men: Days of Future Past, it was more like discussing with a chess table between Charles and Erik, without playing much. The lack of play and banter almost seems to symbolize the extreme distance and hostility (perhaps the worst in the series) between them, including Erik's violent outburst just minutes earlier.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: Crichton plays the game against Harvey (the neural clone in his head). They appeared to be relatively evenly matched, with the outcome being appropriate to the larger situation they were in. Sikozu also once brought the game to Scorpius (whose intelligence was the only one on board she saw as on par to her own) so they could play.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_6f3796a7	comment	Averted in Respawn of the Dead, where we see a chess-game played between the Heavy and the Pyro, typically seen as the two dumbest members of the team. The Engineer, the most intelligent member with 11 separate degrees, prefers checkers.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade gives the Ventrue and Lasombra. They are known to have a heavy fascination with the game of chess. And both clans pride intelligence.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_70814599	comment	In an episode of Stargate SG-1, Samantha Carter is playing chess with Cassandra. Cassandra mentions O'Neill, and states that he's not as dumb as he pretends to be. The example she gives of his Obfuscating Stupidity is that he insists on calling the knight pieces "horses." In a later episode, O'Neill is shown playing chess with General Landry. O'Neill wins. This makes perfect sense, given that he's a general in the Air Force with a background in special forces, and as such knows a lot about strategy.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Benjamin Sisko has a 3-D chess set in his office. (And, of course, a baseball.)
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Smart People Play Chess / int_740815bb	comment	Lord Hong from Interesting Times measures the intelligence and tactical minds of his colleagues and rivals by what exceedingly long length of time they'd spend analyzing a chess board before making their move. He gives Vetinari a rather high honor by suspecting the time between moves would last for days. Whether intentional or not, this is brought up again in Going Postal. While discussing a communications breakdown, Vetinari mentions that in a way he's pleased by it, as it gives him a few more days to consider his next move in the aforementioned long-distance Thud game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_74365738	comment	In Going Postal, the Thud board is also used to contrast Reacher Gilt and Lord Vetinari's ways of thinking (the sides have different rules that favor different strategies and mindsets), as well as Crispin Horsefry's ignorance.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_750abe8f	comment	In The Borgias, Cesare, a Magnificent Bastard, is often seen playing chess. The trope is also played with in one episode, when a relative of Lucrezia's husband teaches her to play chess and she doesn't seem to be that good at it, but ends up outsmarting him in real life.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_767bd4d8	comment	Cerebus the Aardvark: Taken to extremes. Suenteus Po, an old wise philosopher, has grown so weary of the world that he hides in his small apartment and plays chess against himself... for decades. All of which seems to have been a way to protect his secrets from the Big Bad, who can read minds. When she tries to read Po's mind, she sees chess...and nothing else.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks' second season zigzags this with the chess-obsessed Diabolical Mastermind Windom Earle, who forces Agent Cooper to play a game of chess by mail with human lives at stake. Earle is portrayed as both very smart and very good at chess, though not quite as good as Pete Martell, whom Cooper enlists for help. Pete is otherwise not shown to be especially smart, being mostly just a nice old lumberjack who likes fishing, so his chess wizardry comes across as Hidden Depths.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Subverted as Shepard, regarded in-universe as a brilliant tactician and leader, flat-out sucks at chess, claiming it's since they keep trying to apply real-life infantry tactics. Their opponent, an avid strategy gamer, mocks this explanation ruthlessly. Played straight in the Omega DLC. The main antagonist is a Cerberus general well known for being a brilliant tactician. Most of his cutscenes show him playing chess against a computerized opponent. The game and battle end up mirroring who has the apparent advantage, and he concedes the chess game when defeated. The Citadel DLC introduces the asari game of Kepesh-Yakshi, or as Commander Shepard calls it, "space-chess". Samantha Traynor is pretty skilled at it and has a rather intense rivalry with an asari player.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The Riddler is shown, in one Establishing Character Moment, walking past a group of chessplayers and predicting the outcomes of three games in as many seconds.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_7c038c18	comment	Done subtly on Phineas and Ferb. Mad Scientist Dr. Doofensmirtz seems to be a fan of chess. When he is bored, he suggests that he and Perry use his travel chess set. He even schemes to freeze every evil scientist nemesis and turn them into a live animal chess set.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_7c432481	comment	In a variant, Theo in The Westing Game plays chess with someone who only makes moves when he's out of the room. At first, all we know is that Theo's opponent is sneaky, not necessarily smart. However, an eventual Batman Gambit move by Theo's opponent reveals to Judge Ford that the other player is the brilliant Sam Westing, who isn't dead after all because she's seen that same tactic before. Eventually, grown-up Turtle beats Theo's opponent in a chess game, which makes sense because she turned out to be the only one smart enough to solve the Westing Game as well.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: One of biology teacher Mr. Boynton's hobbies is chess. In the "Hobby Show", he tries to teach the game to Miss Brooks.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout In Fallout you can challenge the AI ZAX at the West Tek research facility to a game of chess. The original intent was for the player to be able to win if they have 10 Intelligence, but it's impossible due to a bug. In Fallout 2, you meet a Mad Scientist known only as the Professor in the town of Broken Hills with a genetically engineered intelligent Radscorpion that wears glasses and communicates using Morse code. You can challenge it to a game of chess, but it's impossible to win unless you learn the Flying Liver Attack technique from the Professor's talking spore plant, at which point the Radscorpion goes into a murderous frenzy and try to kill you.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_80dfc3db	comment	Green Lantern (2011) introduces professor Hector Hammond, zoologist and alien examiner, by having him play chess over the internet.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_81884415	comment	As RZA discusses in this interview, the Hip-hop Chess Federation clearly believes in this trope, using chess as a tool to teach strategy, life-planning and impulse control.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_819b8c9e	comment	Warehouse 13: They do this doubly so in one scene; Artie is pondering over a game of chess with himself and says that it's White's move and White's about to lose, while Lena tells him that Claudia's not such a bad kid. Claudia then walks by, moves a piece, announces checkmate, and walks off. And then averted/subverted in a later episode: Artie is trapped in the warehouse by an advanced A.I. program. He challenges the A.I. to a game of...Battleship. Artie wins, by cheating, which ends up being key to figuring out what's going on in the episode.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_822aaa02	comment	The My Little Pony: Equestria Girls fanfic Long Road to Friendship features two chess matches between Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle, the two smartest girls in their class. The first time, Twilight knows she's beaten and concedes, which enrages Sunset, who wanted to soundly beat Twilight. The second time, Twilight wins, though that's only because Flash Sentry is distracting Sunset.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_833ad429	comment	Implied in passing in Daughter for Dessert. Mortelli recounts how he once infiltrated a chess club, and says that this assignment convinced him that he was smart enough to be a detective.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: Mr. Cat and Quack-Quack, the two most intelligent characters on the show, enjoy playing chess with each other.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_862222e3	comment	The Rebel Set has its villain intentionally set himself as a mastermind using this trope. He confides to his sidekick that he isn't a particularly skilled player, but he is very good at finding opponents who are worse. His main scheme for the movie uses the same tactic.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_875de0a1	comment	The Forrest Gump book has Forrest learning to play chess rather well, going up against various masters of the game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_8760760e	comment	Subverted in Wag the Dog. After a particularly devious play in their campaign to create a fake war, the film producer remarks to the spin doctor, "I'll bet you're great at chess." The spin doctor replies, "I would be if I could remember how all the pieces moved."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_876cd173	comment	Watch_Dogs Inverts it. There's a chess minigame which can be played at several locations. Playing it enough unlocks the final adrenaline mode skill; the in-game explanation for it is that it represents Aiden's ability to think quickly, implying that playing chess helped make him smarter.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003): In one episode, Cyborg and Raven, generally portrayed as the two smartest team members, are shown playing chess with each other. The Brotherhood of Evil's boss and his Dragon are seen playing chess as their minions engage the various international Titans.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_89446aa7	comment	Glass Onion: One of the locks on Miles' puzzle boxes is a chessboard; Claire identifies it as a "chess endgame" and solves it with the move that leads to checkmate. His friends take this as proof Miles' (and their own) brilliance, but this assumption is Subverted. What Claire calls an "endgame" is the "Fool's Mate," a widely-known checkmate that is only possible if one side makes the stupidest moves. Solving it does not demonstrate any deep understanding of chess, and Miles didn't design the puzzle anyway. As a bonus, it is a Stealth Pun: each of Miles' friends is a fool's mate.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_8ae25cfe	comment	The Peace War: The scientific genius Paul Naismith plays chess recreationally, and Mike Rojas asserts that he's never seen Paul lose a game except when he wanted to. Wili, Paul's chosen successor, also plays chess at high level; at one point, he enters a chess tournament where most of the competitors sport various computer enhancements, plays unenhanced and nearly wins.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_8d817ccb	comment	On one episode of Lost, Locke unlocks a secret message by beating a computer game of chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Lex Luthor is often shown playing chess in his various incarnations. Lex Luthor's introduction in Superman: Red Son has him winning fourteen simultaneous games of chess on his coffee break, while also reading Machiavelli in the original Italian and teaching himself Urdu by tape "to keep my mind occupied". He also only becomes truly obsessed with defeating Superman after a clone of the latter beats him at chess. In pre-Crisis days, Superman kept a giant chess-playing robot in the Fortress of Solitude that could play at super speed. Because why not?
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Smart People Play Chess / int_8e402581	comment	In Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Jet and Spike are playing Shogi. Jet is lecturing on how it is necessary to plan ahead, both in the game and in their work as bounty hunters, yet is having trouble against Spike, who never plans ahead at all. Then Ein, a dog, comes along and makes a brilliant move on Jet's behalf.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_90f42a9b	comment	"Stones" (a fictional game that bears a resemblance to the Chinese board game Go) fulfills this trope in The Wheel of Time. Morgase Trakan, Pedron Niall, and Thom Merillin are all master Stones players and excellent strategists and politicians, and often make observations about other characters based on their ability at the game. Matrim Cauthon is a strategic whizz and rather a good Stones player, but too impatient to beat the best players. The villainous Moridin is described at a master not just of Stones but of every game of skill he's ever bothered to learn and, Chess Master that he is, tends to visualize his entire Evil Plan as a vast boardgame where he controls all the pieces on both sides.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_91395986	comment	The Woman in White: Miss Marian Halcombe is very smart and very good at games, naturally she's also good at playing chess. However, when she plays with Count Fosco, she discovers very quickly that he let her win. She immediately calls him on it as she wants to be treated with respect and as an equal. He apologizes and utterly destroys her in their next game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_924bb56e	comment	Chessboards appear in Dollhouse, though they are rarely prominent in the plot. Topher, the Los Angeles Dollhouse's resident programmer and genius, usually has a board in his office, and has an improvised, chalk-drawn one beside the sleeping pod where he holes up after losing his mind in the dystopia of "Epitaph One." Also, "Getting Closer" includes a scene in which Bennett and Echo while away the hours with chess while repairing the hard drive containing Echo's original personality, Caroline. (Though the real Caroline was smart but no genius, Echo — thanks to the repeated personality imprints on her brain — by then has 40 minds to draw upon and might well be a match at chess for Bennett or Topher.) In the unaired pilot, Topher is shown playing chess on three different boards (against himself, presumably).
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Smart People Play Chess / int_95818d99	comment	Killer7: Harman Smith and Kun Lan play chess while not engaging in their neverending conflict.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9871d4f3	comment	In Bluey, Bandit spends the episode "Chest" trying to teach Bluey and Bingo to play chess for precisely this reason. Unfortunately for him, Bluey and Bingo are still too young to really grasp the rules and instead turn the lesson into another one of their make-believe games, being easily distracted by the elaborate chess pieces. Chilli eventually takes over the game to teach Bandit how it's more important for them to raise their daughters to be good people rather than just focusing on making them smarter.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_988629da	comment	Early in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Chekov and Terrell stumble on what's left of the Botany Bay on Ceti Alpha V, which is being used as shelter for Khan and his followers. One of the items they see is a chess set, which isn't surprising for someone as Wicked Cultured as Khan. It's worth noting, however, that it's a regular 2-D chessboard and not the 3-D setup that Kirk and Spock are used to. It serves as Foreshadowing that despite Khan's intelligence, he's sorely lacking in experience and three-dimensional thinking compared to Kirk.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9910cc85	comment	Mulan: During the matchmaker scene, Mulan briefly passes by a game of Xiangqi (a Chinese game roughly analogous to chess) and quickly makes a move on behalf of one stumped player. His reaction indicates it was very successful.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: Mr. Spock would often play 3-D chess when off duty (usually against Captain Kirk). One episode has Spock discovering that the ship's computer was tampered with when he managed to beat it at the game several times in a row. (Spock's reasoning was that because he was the one who programmed the computer to play chess, it would be unlikely that he could manage anything better than a stalemate while playing against it.) Subverted in "The Corbomite Maneuver", which has Spock making chess references left and right, trying to use it as an analogue for the situation the ship finds itself in. Kirk eventually realizes that the best game analogue should actually be poker, and proceeds to bluff the alien ship about what would happen if he fired on the Enterprise. The alien buys it (or is at least intrigued enough by the bluff to play along). In "Whom Gods Destroy", Kirk orders the bridge to present a chess problem to anyone - himself included - who desires to be let onboard, and to not let the individual onboard unless he states the correct counter-move, which only he, Scotty and Spock know. (This proves clever foresight on his part, as the villain of the episode does indeed try to board the ship disguised as him.) Used in a fairly ridiculous way in "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Kirk defeats Spock by using an "illogical" tactic which catches him off guard. What makes it silly is that the tactic is simply sacrificing a piece, which leads to checkmate in the next turn. How this very basic part of the game is illogical is never explained.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9b1636a1	comment	In The Imitation Game, Hugh Alexander (cf. Real Life) is introduced in Alan Turing's team with a mention of him being a chess championnote And a serious one. Alexander once took a game off Mikhail Botvinnik, one of the string of Soviet world champions in the 1950s and 60s, to warn Turing (and the audience) that Turing isn't the only genius of the team.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: Dilton is frequently shown playing chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9ceb5ee3	comment	Valhalla: Odin loves chess (despite the anachronism) and can almost constantly be seen playing it against his advisor Mimir when he's not taking an active affair in things. Subverted in that he always loses, and often so badly that the results (and his ensuing attempts to weasel out of them by cheating) fall under Rule of Funny.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Appears in George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels in the form of cyvasse (reportedly inspired by "a bit of chess, a bit of blitzkrieg, a bit of stratego"). Good players include the extremely clever Tyrion Lannister, the scholar Haldon Halfmaester, the quite intelligent princess Myrcella, and the good tactician Brown Ben Plumm. Doran Martell is a subversion; he never plays any game he could potentially lose.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9d4fbe8e	comment	In Freeman's Mind, Gordon complains that despite popular perception, chess doesn't actually measure intelligence; it measures the ability to think a step ahead of the opponent (which, incidentally, is why it's so hard to beat a computer: it's literally built for them). He also says that it doesn't matter how smart you are; Einstein and Tesla would still have lost to the nut who committed the entire board and all the piece configurations to memorynote A feat no-one can achieve. There are more such configurations than can be written down using the entire universe as paper. Only recently has it been possible to compile databases featuring all configurations of seven men. It was an exponentially harder task than the six-man database and there is not even a theoretical possibility of ever achieving it with thirty-two. He also dismisses the idea of chess helping in any kind of strategy because, in the end, it isn't flexible enough to account for anything: You can, however, achieve a position in which a couple of pieces secure checkmate against much stronger opposing forces, not by just toughing it out but by superior planning and tactics. There's even a weird position where King and one pawn beats the entire 16-man army. It's just that you can't "punch through them anyway".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9e1e1954	comment	Billy Thatcher in Morph E is a chess grandmaster with his own reality TV show. His early defining character moment is playing a game of chess via notation doubling to show off his intellect and eidetic memory.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9e202b7b	comment	Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Akisame is revealed to be a master Othello player, among his seemingly limitless talents. He claims that he has never lost a game in his life. In this case, we already knew Akisame was smart, this just reinforced the impression.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_9f78fda3	comment	In Murder, She Wrote Jessica Fletcher is occasionally seen engaged in a chess game, usually with the town doctor.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a00491b8	comment	Played with in Escape From The Hokage's Hat. Tsunade brings up this trope in reference to Shikamaru and then has Naruto play checkers. When Naruto then asks why checkers instead of chess, she explains that it fits his fighting style (of spamming Shadow Clone Jutsu and working with the clones) since all the pieces share the same value but they only become dangerous if in the right position and gives Naruto practice in directing clones.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a00e5c76	comment	In "Clubland Heroes", the child genius boasts, "Do you play chess? I can beat anyone, without looking at the board." It's not put to the test, though, because the last thing the protagonist wants is a reason to spend more time in his company.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Played for Laughs as Zoidberg is seen contemplating a chessboard... and then eats one of the pieces. It's Played for Laughs in the opening sequence of another episode, where Fry is playing holographic chess with Bender (a Shout-Out to the example in A New Hope). Fry actually seems to be winning at first (having more pieces than Bender and making a move that results in a Check) despite referring to a piece as "pointy guy" (likely a Bishop), suggesting that he's a novice. Then Bender says, "Get 'im, boys!" and his pieces tackle Fry. To which Fry groans in response, "Good move..."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a2b7c5ee	comment	In No Name on the Bullet, Frontier Doctor Luke Canfield and Hitmanwith A Heart John Gant play a game; it's mentioned that neither gets much of an opportunity to.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a32b6a64	comment	In The West Wing, President Bartlet plays chess. At one point he plays several games simultaneously while solving a crisis related to Taiwan. When Leo insists that CJ organize a weekly chess match for the President, CJ assumes it's just a way to unwind, and can be assigned a low priority. Leo points out, with deadly seriousness, that it's a way to make sure his multiple sclerosis isn't starting to impact his cognitive functions. On learning this CJ arranges for a professional player to come in for the weekly match. Bartlet insists that she play him instead with the pro advising her.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a3d2bcec	comment	Played with in the Modesty Blaise novel The Night of Morningstar. The evil mastermind Golitsyn is shown playing chess while waiting for news on the outcome of a mission — and playing dirty, distracting his opponent with insults while he makes a key move, because he's not confident of winning fairly and has too much ego to accept losing.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day has Julius and David Levinson playing chess together early on, with David winning easily. He spends much of the rest of the movie talking in Chess Motifs.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a4420d22	comment	Subverted in The Venture Bros. when the M.O.D.O.K. Captain Ersatz Think Tank breaks into Dr. Venture's penthouse to challenge him to a game of chess, only for Venture to explain that he doesn't know how to play and that he's "more of a Parcheesi man".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Though it is worth pointing out that Code Geass does take place in an alternate timeline, so it is possible that some rules of Chess might be different.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a50ae25d	comment	The Final Reflection, by John M. Ford, reveals that Klingon military strategy is the province of military "thought admirals", who hone their skills in klin zha (Klingon chess). The (Klingon) protagonist's father, who is a thought admiral, also studies other races' equivalents of klin zha, including the Human game "chess", to gain insight into the races that play them.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a574e145	comment	The Draka play chess; unfortunately, the only moves quoted in The Domination are complete nonsense ("Knight to King's Pawn Four" is syntactically invalid, never mind whether it would be a good move or not).
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a6cc2dfa	comment	In the film version of Death Note, Light and L play a brief game against one another, while holding a conversation about L's suspicions that Light is Kira. Light wins, to which L responds with a deadpan "Impressive."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a92653e1	comment	Subverted in The Executioner novel "Stony Man Doctrine". KGB strategist Fedorenko tries to teach chess to Japanese terrorist Yoshida, explaining the moves as a metaphor for the world struggle against capitalism. Yoshida listens in silent contempt, then cuts the lesson short by sweeping aside the board. He makes a point of reminding Fedorenko of this incident later on while torturing the KGB agent to death.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_a9dd3bce	comment	Both a non-chess example and a subversion in One Piece (2023). Vice-Admiral Garp is portrayed as an intelligent, but somewhat unhinged and maverick commander. He enjoys playing Go, but he's not actually very good at it.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_acb92fd0	comment	In Father Ted, faced with a choice between a game of chess or Buckaroo, manchild Dougal predictably goes with the less cerebral option, prompting Ted to roll his eyes and say "Buckaroo: the sport of kings."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ad622d64	comment	Spinnock Durav from the Malazan Book of the Fallen is an apt Kef Tanar player, easily the most skilled at the game in Scour Tavern. Him playing the strategic game in Toll the Hounds is the first hint the reader gets that Spinnock is not just dumb muscle.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_aee68dc5	comment	Charlie Wilson's War. We're introduced to covert warfare strategist Mike Vickers playing chess in a park against four opponents simultaneously. He warns one opponent against trading queens without even looking at the guy or at the board. (This is purely a Hollywood invention, as there's no mention in the non-fiction book of the real Mike Vickers being a chess mastermind.) Charlie is unimpressed with his chess skill and concerned about his youth (he's not yet 30 and looks even younger) but changes his tune when he learns Vickers is a Special Forces veteran.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_af74d7f8	comment	Averted in Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, Carol says she's good at Othello (AKA Reversi)...and then proves it by playing a perfect game against both her friends, beating Tomo in five minutes and Misuzu in ten. This is just one of many indications that Carol is more than just a fluffy-looking foreign girl.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b075a451	comment	Fate/EXTRA CCC: Rani VIII, a homunculus from a school of alchemists specializing in predictions and calculations, loves chess and considers it "the ultimate fair game". She's also quite good and defeats most of the main cast one after another. Surprisingly, the one person who beats her soundly is Gilgamesh, who trounces Rani without even trying.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b0a9ed90	comment	Famously parodied in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. The two title characters die and meet the Grim Reaper, who offers the traditional "play for your lives" challenge. Being the ditzes that they are, Bill and Ted proceed to play and beat Death at Battleship, Clue, Twister, and other (less cerebral) games.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b1c94339	comment	A variant occurs in the Horatio Hornblower books with the card game whist, which Hornblower's mathematical acumen allows him to excel at. He gains respect for Lady Barbara when she proves to be an excellent player, and it's another mark in favor of the Comte de Gracy and his daughter-in-law Marie. Bush is not very good at it because he's not mathematical or especially imaginative in spite of his expertise at seamanship. Nor is the bullying Jack Simpson, who completely bungles a game with Hornblower and accuses him of cheating in one of the Midshipman stories.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b2301052	comment	Shikamaru in Connecting the Dots learns about chess while he's captive in LexCorp, finding it rather enjoyable to kill time. He eventually gets so good at it that, at the end of the story, he plays against Batman and wins.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b36b9a9f	comment	In Husk, Scott is the resident nerd and is identified as a member of the chess team to establish him as the smart member of the group. He uses a chess board he finds in the Old, Dark House to make a chess analogy to explain how the Scary Scarecrow operates. Unfortunately, the move he describes is not part of the rules of chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b3788a5d	comment	In 2001: A Space Odyssey, an early scene features HAL 9000 playing chess and predicting checkmate against his opponent - However, his analysis actually has a subtle flaw, which goes unnoticed by his opponent. Given Kubrick's own love of chess, this was likely a deliberate error and an early clue that HAL isn't all there.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b3f687d1	comment	Played with in FoxTrot: Roger is an inversion as he's almost always clueless and the only one in the family that enjoys chess. In early strips, Roger was fairly decent and actually won a game against Andy in the first strip, but as flanderization set in and he became more of a Bumbling Dad, he became so legendarily bad at the game that online services match him against children playing for the first time. Jason, the smartest of the family, only plays when Roger ropes him into a game and wins in three moves. The rest of the family seem to be reasonably talented; they just devote their skills into losing to Roger as quickly as possible rather than indulging him in multi-hour chess sessions since beating him would lead to him begging for a rematch. Perhaps Roger's skill at the game atrophied over the years as a result?
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b50aa03f	comment	The Reynard Cycle: In The Baron of Maleperduys, Reynard and Isengrim competitively play Campraeden, a board game that resembles Risk. Reynard wins most of the time, in spite of Isengrim having played since childhood. As Reynard himself points out, this is because Isengrim tries to defend everything, and ends up defending nothing, while Reynard is willing to sacrifice his pieces for the ultimate victory . . . Information that ends up foreshadowing the later revelation that, in spite of their Red Oni, Blue Oni relationship with each other (with Reynard as the Red Oni, and Isengrim as the blue), Reynard is actually the one with the cold, calculating mind, and Isengrim is the one ultimately ruled by his heart.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b712435c	comment	In the drama Leverage, team mastermind Nate Ford frequently plays online chess. And in "The Juror Number Six Game", Earnshaw, the lawyer opposing them, also plays chess. Ford uses Chess Motifs to explain her tactics. Earnshaw realizes halfway through the episode that she's essentially playing chess against someone as her and Nate are constantly countering each other's moves. At the end of the episode Nate just hands her a chess piece and leaves when they finally meet face to face. It is interesting in The Three Card Monte Job that contrasts Nate's chess with his father's three card monte, a game based entirely on deception. Worthy Opponent Sterling also plays chess. He and Nate play a game at the beginning of "The Queen's Gambit Job" that ends with only the two kings left standingnote This outcome might work for Rule of Symbolism, but in real life could only occur if both players were staggeringly bad at the game. During the episode, we're introduced to Olivia Livingston, who's The Mark's stepdaughter and Sterling's birth-daughter: Stering's divorced from her late Mom, who was killed by a car bomb. She's guarded at a chess tournament, and her life's endangered by her step-dad's illegal deals. Sterling's able to regain custody of Olivia while Nate sabotages a nuclear weight in the episode.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b7b5e290	comment	The Deryni counterpart is cardounet. Joram MacRorie and Rhys Thuryn are playing it when the short story "Catalyst" begins, and young Alaric Morgan gets a set as a gift. Both Alaric and Joram excel at such tactical games.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b7b81c45	comment	In Silverado, Sheriff Langston plays chess with himself, showing that he is intelligent and Surrounded by Idiots. Specifically, there is a deputy sitting opposite him at the chessboard; Langston makes a move, and then stoically turns the chessboard around so that he is now playing the opposite side's pieces every move.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b99da0d	comment	The Incredible Hercules: Lampshaded and subverted in an issue. Facing a test of cunning set before him by a sorceress, Hercules examines a chess-like layout, then smashes the whole thing apart, claiming the answer was that the only way to win was to change the rules (and referencing the Kobayashi Maru while he did so). The sorceress applauds him, even as her advisor points out that all he had to do was move one of the rooks. (She was target-locked on ol' Herc at this point, so some leeway isn't surprising.) In a related vein, one issue of Mighty Avengers shows Herc's Teen Genius ally Amadeus Cho — described as the 7th smartest person in the world (Herc fans suspect Cho might deserve a higher ranking) — defeating The Vision at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_b9da52e1	comment	In Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts' Empire trilogy, characters who are good at chess are inevitably good tacticians, especially the lords of House Anasati, and their utterly unbeatable True Neutral genius advisor.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ba084d45	comment	In Hamilton George Washington (who is viewed as a master tactician and leader throughout) makes a chess reference during the song "Right Hand Man".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: In an issue of the '70s version, Timber Wolf (the team's feral member) is seen playing a game of chess. He loses, and he complains he was just about to use his secret tactic: kicking over the table!
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Smart People Play Chess / int_bc32e722	comment	BOB â�¤ï¸� ABISHOLA: In "Whacking the Mole" Abishola returns home from work and catches her son Dele playing a game on his laptop. Being the Education Mama she is, Abishola is furious at Dele for not educating himself and lectures him, until she finds out that he was playing chess. She then tells him to continue and that he must win.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_bc3e398b	comment	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. A flashback scene shows Sarah Connor entering a South American guerilla camp; sitting in a jungle clearing is her son playing chess with their commander.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has its own version of chess called "regicide" (the rules are never detailed). Ciaphas Cain writes in his memoirs that he was able to regularly trounce Lord General Zyvan, who was probably Cain's superior in actual military strategy and tactics, at it and adds that he suspects that Zyvan found the game too abstract for his tastes.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c0d295c4	comment	It seems that the Medic from Team Fortress 2 plays chess. In this unused draft of "Meet the Medic", there's a chessboard set up next to his seat on a train. And he seems to be quite smart (although his surgical technique could use work), if also crazy.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c0e32904	comment	In an episode of Dans Une Galaxie PrÃ¨s De Chez Vous, the crew knows one of them is the Jedi Apprentice and decide to play 3D chess (called Ã‰chec et Mars) to find out who has the most intelligent, and thus the apprentice. Turns out the Jedi apprentice is Bob, the dumb pilot who mentions he fainted due to the game's difficulty even before he even opened the box.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c17bc327	comment	Lord Loss, from Darren Shan's The Demonata series, is exceptionally intelligent and very manipulative. Chess is his second favourite pastime (after torturing humans)
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c18bfdae	comment	Blade Runner. Eldon Tyrell and J.F. Sebastian (one of Tyrell's genetic designers) regularly play chess as an indication of their intellects. The replicant Roy Batty tricks his way into Tyrell's presence by feeding Sebastian chess moves that beat Tyrell — indicating Batty's intellectual superiority.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c34ab4c	comment	This Bites!: Zig-zagged. Vice Admiral Jonathan and Robin both play chess and play well, but Cross admits to being a beginner at best. There's too many rules for him.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c3b69789	comment	In 10 CRAZIEST Laws in the World by Matt Santoro, Eugene wins a game of chess against a boxer.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c43df4d8	comment	Occasionally pops up in Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor claimed that chess was originally a Time Lord game. The Fourth Doctor would often be seen playing chess against his robot dog K-9. And would often lose. As fitting the Seventh Doctor's status as The Chessmaster, this would pop up from time to time in his era. He's participating in a chess game against an unseen opponent in "Silver Nemesis", and the climax of "The Curse of Fenric" hinges on whether the Doctor is able to flummox his opponent with a chess puzzle. Eleven is seen playing an agent of the Silence at 'Live Chess', a variant where moving a piece too many times causes it to give an electric shock to the player if touched. He forces his opponent to continually move his queen until the shock the piece harbors is lethal, then concedes the game, sparing his opponent from death, in exchange for information. Eleven challenges the Cyber-Planner "Mr. Clever" to a game of chess in "Nightmare in Silver", with the stakes being that whoever wins takes control of the Doctor's body. They both cheat. The Twelfth Doctor finds the immortal Ashildr/Me waiting for him at the death of the Universe, having taken The Slow Path. She has a second chair and a chess table set up (though neither get used). According to Word of God, having lived longer than even the Doctor, Me has long since surpassed him in knowledge and wisdom. Near the beginning of "Kinda", Teen Genius companions Nyssa and Adric are seen playing chess. Adric is winning, mainly because Nyssa is suffering from dizzy spells after her ordeal at the hands of Monarch in "Four to Doomsday" and is finding it difficult to focus.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c489a759	comment	Digimon Adventure 02: The English dub explains that one of Ken Ichijoji's many genius-level talents is "playing a single game of chess while everyone watches." note The clip is set in a park with a ring of chess tables. Ken is, as the narration states, playing one game, while the single occupants at all the other tables turn to watch.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c4956fb0	comment	Night Train to Lisbon (2013) opens with a scene of a man (played by Jeremy Irons) playing chess with himself. We soon learn that the character, Raimund Gregorius, is a lonely university professor.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c59ec4c1	comment	In another episode, Troi beats Data at 3-D chess. While Troi is intelligent, she explains that she's plating by intuition, which she says can sometimes beat pure logic. (This is a highly questionable statement, unless 3-D chess is a very different game with only superficial similarities to regular chess.)
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c675b3d7	comment	The Star Trek Expanded Universe: The Final Reflection, by John M. Ford, reveals that Klingon military strategy is the province of military "thought admirals", who hone their skills in klin zha (Klingon chess). The (Klingon) protagonist's father, who is a thought admiral, also studies other races' equivalents of klin zha, including the Human game "chess", to gain insight into the races that play them. In Star Trek: The Brave And The Bold, Captain Robert Desoto of the Hood, Riker's former commanding officer, is a champion-level Go player. His reputation is such that he could never find anyone to play him, so he resorted to teaching some of his naive staff the game...including Riker, a "brash young lieutenant who didn't like games where he couldn't bluff", and his current first officer, which he regretted as she went from the standard handicap to regularly beating him inside of a year. My Enemy, My Ally, by Diane Duane, introduces the idea of four-dimensional chess. The board is cube-shaped (the pieces are controlled by a special transporter system to keep them from falling off) and players can remove a piece entirely to use it later. They may later change when a piece reappears, although every time a player does that, the other player gets to make an extra move. At the beginning of the book, Kirk is about to lose to Spock. Bones takes over for Kirk and beats Spock. Kirk was in a bad way because he tried one of his "scream-and-leap" offensives, which occasionally succeeds in rattling Spock with its sheer bloody-minded enthusiasm, but Spock wasn't falling for it this time. Kirk is smart, but unless he can nab a psychological advantage over Spock early in the game, he'll lose more often than not. McCoy then takes over Kirk's game, and forces a draw through an unconventional tactic he sums up as "Kamikaze Chess". But the real crowner here goes to the Romulan Commander Ael t'Rllaillieu, who soundly beats McCoy at a round of 4D chess... Minutes after learning of the existence of any form of chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c6dbe98e	comment	Played with in Monster: hyper-intelligent Inspector Runge/Lunge tells some subordinates to not "waste time with such a boring game." In the manga, he says so... right after showing the winning move to one of them.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7 plays the trope straight with various Mad Scientists and Manipulative Bastards playing Variant Chess. In "Weapon" this trope crashes into Technology Marches On when a psychostrategist (a Chessmaster who plans Batman Gambits for a living) owns an expensive chess computer which he's managed to beat six times in a row. The last year any human was able to beat the best chess-playing computer in the world was 2005.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest. When Harold Finch goes to visit Elias in prison, the only thing the city's most powerful mob boss asks for in return for his help is for a Worthy Opponent to play chess. Their mutual role as The Chessmaster manipulating events from behind the scenes is lampshaded in this scene. A flashback scene in another episode shows Finch teaching chess to the Machine, although Finch cautions the Machine against thinking of people as chess pieces who can be casually sacrificed. The Machine spends hours pondering its first move because it's unable to make a decision when the possibilities of success are so uncertain, until Finch convinces it to just go ahead anyway. John Reese is shown playing Xiangqi in the park, a Chinese version of chess. Although he's the 'brawn' part of Team Machine, he's far from being Dumb Muscle, being a former CIA assassin who worked internationally.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c7d47d93	comment	In Central Park, Season 1 "Squirrel, Interrupted", Paige and Molly both play chess together and Paige is surprised that Molly has actually beaten her since she's been letting her win. They go to the Chess House at the park where several other people are playing chess and Molly meets Danny and beats him in several matches. Then they meet Constantine, who is a chess master and is undefeated at the park, and they see him play against ten people at the same time while he's eating sushi. Molly knows she has no chance against him, but still plays against him so she can learn from it.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c7f5679d	comment	Twilight: Bella classified Eric as a "chess nerd". This is frustrating for anti-fans, because a) Bella is judging Eric by his looks, and b) never, at any point in the series, do we see Eric playing chess. Alice and Edward play chess together, because, you know, Edward being a telepath, another psychic is the only opponent who can give him a good game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_c832776	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: The evil mastermind of the series, Gilbert Durandal is often time seen playing chess while imagining ghostly apparitions that talk to him. Needless to say, he's one of the brightest people in the show. As for his ghostly "opponent"? It's Rau Le Creuset, Big Bad of the previous series, and one of the few people capable of checkmating Durandal, both morally and philosophically.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ca08598f	comment	On an early episode of The Wire, D'Angelo Barksdale finds his lieutenants Poot and Bodie playing checkers with a chess set. He teaches them the rudiments of the proper game and sets it up as a brilliant extended metaphor for the Barksdale drug organization. Bodie recalls it three seasons later, shortly before he's killed.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter: Played for horror. The Chimera Ant King has just taken over a country with minimal effort, and to pass the time and to demonstrate his superior intellect over humans, he brings in the country's national champions for chess and its counterparts to play them. To the utter shock and terror of the chess, shogi, and go champions, it takes only a few hours for the King to go from playing for the first time to overtaking them at their own game, upon which the King kills them for no longer being amusing to him—or, in the case of the go champion, he hangs himself. The only one able to keep up with the King is an Idiot Savant in the fictional game gungi, a chess-like game from said country, and even then the repeated matches between the two of them accelerate the metagame at least a hundredfold.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cb4950b1	comment	Colossus: The Forbin Project. Forbin is playing against Colossus using a stylized chess set while his colleagues try to shut down the Master Computer with a Logic Bomb. Unfortunately, by that stage Colossus has advanced in intelligence so much it overcomes the attempt in a few seconds, while simultaneously completing the chess move with obvious Rule of Symbolism.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cb6a6d5b	comment	The Avengers (1998). Mrs. Peel and Steed play a game of chess. Mrs. Peel has been portrayed as a genius up to this point, and she plays from memory and handily defeats Steed to show her intellectual superiority.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Seto Kaiba got him and his brother adopted by beating Gozaburo in a chess game. Gozaburo, on the other hand, was a Grandmaster, and not all-too smart at all. When he later confronts Kaiba at Duel Monsters, few fans would deny that his deck strategy was very poor. In the manga version, Mokuba claims that he cheated. Still, that's hardly a reason to say Seto isn't smarter than Gozuburo. (Gozaburo based his whole life on cheating and lying; Seto was likely just better at it.) The above is in of itself strange since there isn't a conventional way to cheat at chess. In the English dub, Seto beat Gozaburo by studying all of Gozaburo's past matches and moves, allowing him to know the best way to defeat him. While Gozaburo did adopt Seto and Mokuba as agreed, Seto's planning and execution of moves impressed Gozaburo to where he made Seto his heir to the Kaiba Corporation.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cbad9b62	comment	Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Invoked with Yang Wenli, who proves himself time and time again to be one of the smartest and deadliest men alive and occasionally is seen playing chess. Inverted in that he kind of sucks at it.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ccf875f7	comment	In one episode of Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid is seen playing chess...against himself. Throughout the first two seasons, he and Gideon played frequently with Gideon beating Reid almost every time. Gideon claimed that to win and be a good profiler, he needed to learn to think outside the box. In one episode, Prentiss recognizes that Gideon was about to checkmate Reid before he does, highlighting her intelligence.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cd1550c5	comment	In The Dark Tower series, Smart Tacticians Play Castles.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cd63e81d	comment	Miles Edgeworth of Ace Attorney fame has a chess set in his office, with custom-made red and blue pieces in place of the usual black and white ones. Typically these pieces are arranged so that a spiky-headed blue pawn is surrounded by red knights carrying swords with sharp edges. Ace Attorney Investigations 2 takes this to another level where Edgeworth visualizes verbal conflicts with uncooperative witnesses as a battle of chess, similarly to how Phoenix did it with his Magatama, breaking through their resistance by carefully choosing his words and destroying their "pieces". As a gameplay element, it is called "Logic Chess".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ced20bb9	comment	Alderamin on the Sky: Since most of the characters are in the military, they often engage in a chess game. Ikta, the main character, tends to lay waste upon most of his opponents.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cf10c600	comment	In TRON: Legacy, Kevin Flynn is a wise Deity of Human Origin who is said to often play Go... and who usually wins, because he avoids impatient and aggressive strategies.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Johnny Bravo: Parodied in one short which has Johnny facing off against a supercomputer robot in a chess tournament, with the robot growing increasingly infuriated by Johnny's stupidity and lack of understanding of the game and confusing it with Checkers.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cf5eb8b0	comment	Rama II: Two of the scientist astronauts, Takagishi and Janos Tabori, blow off steam by playing chess every evening. Tabori is very interested in playing, exclaiming audibly about lessons he learned, and Takagishi, who is a master player, secures himself and advantage at the beginning of every game, then allows Tabori to erode it out of consideration for his friend.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cf9754f1	comment	In NapolÃ©on (1927), the title character and Hoche—both military strategists—play a game at the Victims' Ball. Napoleon wins.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_cf9c72e6	comment	In Lucky Number Slevin, there is a scene where Slevin and the Boss discuss how Slevin will kill the Rabbi's son, interposed with a scene where Goodkat tells the Boss how he can manipulate Slevin into performing the murder, all while playing chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d0455938	comment	At the end of The Wild Geese, mercenary Allen Faulkner returns to get his revenge on Sir Edward Matheson, the Corrupt Corporate Executive who orchestrated the whole affair. He finds Matheson in his study playing chess, and notes sardonically, "That will be mate in two. I'd like to see you get yourself out of that."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d109f322	comment	In Andromeda, another tv series based on one of Gene Roddenberry's ideas, captain Dylan Hunt preferred 3-dimensional Go. His usual opponent, his first officer, turns out to have been cheating almost every game and is astonished Dylan wasn't (although Dylan realizes a few centuries late that this was supposed to be a tipoff about the officer's people planning a rebellion).
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d1710616	comment	Sharps also includes the idea of being smart enough to lose on purpose, and all of the main characters range from competent to genius at chess and are all quite intelligent in addition to being master fencers. The work also has the cunning Smug Snake Political Officer avert this, commenting that he has no interest in chess because he can know how to defeat his opponent from the very first move. Likewise, it is purposefully averted with General Carnufex, a brilliant strategist, who is not good at chess himself but can accurately gauge others from their style of play.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse subverts this trope with benjuka, a board game where the rules change after every move, much like life, creating a game of baffling complexity and poetic subtlety. In contrast to games with fixed rules, it cannot be intellectually mastered. It is said to challenge one's spirit rather than intellect. As such, the highly intelligent Achamian usually loses to his regular game partner because he stubbornly tries to force a victory through sheer cunning.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d2c882d8	comment	In Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, team leaders Nathan and Orson have a game of chess during one of the flights. Played with as the working class Orson, who is stated to have the ability to exploit any system to his advantage, has the more intellectual, upper class Nathan trapped in in very difficult position.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d31cdea	comment	Haymitch and Peeta are among the most cunning characters in The Hunger Games. In Catching Fire, Katniss comes home to find them playing chess in her kitchen.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d33d17cf	comment	A Long Petal of the Sea: VÃctor, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War who left for Chile, goes to thank Minister of Health Salvador Allende for his help with his studies in medicine and they end up forming a friendship based upon games of chess. After the 1973 coup and Allende's death, their relationship will result in VÃctor spending eleven months in a concentration camp and then going into exile.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d47b7f5f	comment	Dovasary Balitang from the Trickster's Duet. She's just thirteen, but she's very well-read and thoughtful; she has several adult chess partners in the Palace. Good traits for a Queen.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d4fe0152	comment	In Oz, book smart Tobias Beecher teaches street smart thug Chris Keller how to play chess; Keller has no patience for it, but goes along with it as part of his and Vern Schillinger's Batman Gambit. Later, he and Schillinger are seen playing chess; it's hinted that Keller already knew how to play.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d52dfe03	comment	In Big Nate, the Book Dumb title character averts this, being his school's top chess player. His friends, avid believers in this trope, are clueless as to why he's so good at it. Though played straight with Nate's best friend, who used to be the best before losing to Nate. (Though he is now 4th best since he lost to Gina, making her another straight example.) Artur plays with this. While he is pretty smart, he is also a bit eccentric due to being a Funny Foreigner. Nonetheless, he consistently beats Nate, something which is one of the main reasons why Nate is bothered by him (the other being Artur is with Jenny and Artur being very lucky compared to Cosmic Plaything Nate.)
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon: Hyper-intelligent Ami plays chess, which is an important part of one episode where she plays against a villain who freezes her body more and more as she loses her pieces.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_d98c0a73	comment	Teen Wolf: Stiles, the pack's resident researcher and strategist, plays chess with his Dad and even uses it as a metaphor to explain the supernatural world. When he's possessed by the nogitsune - a Japanese Fox Spirit - it's revealed the spirit keeps him trapped in his own mind by keeping him playing an endless game of Go.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_da141042	comment	Discussed in the Insecticomics. While trying to dissuade a Mary Sue from shoehorning her way into the Decepticons, Kickback uses Dreadmoon as an example: he's both intelligent and extremely good at chess, but this doesn't make him a genius tactician in real life.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_da6e9f88	comment	In Peacebreakers by Mindy Mackay, Isabella Sordeno is shown playing chess, as is her brother and two of her minions. Subverted when accomplice Jackson becomes the only one to beat her since her ascension to Chessmaster, as he is characterized more as reckless than intelligent.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_dc217e32	comment	PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines: In the sidestory focused on Mewtwo's origins, there's a scene where he's playing a game of chess against Giovanni. The two seem to be enjoying themselves while at it, and Giovanni is pleased when Mewtwo finally manages to beat him.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_dc8622eb	comment	Ric Hochet: The titular character is a very skilled player. Even the resident scientific genius, Professor Hermelin, has been beaten repeatedly by him, much to the latter's annoyance. Ric' Arch-Nemesis, "Le Bourreau", is also a very cunning player, although he doesn't hesitate to cheat or play unfairly.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	No Game No Life: Shiro, the 11-year-old genius, beats the best chess A.I. 20 times in a row. She then later beats God in chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_dd18fa29	comment	The Chung Kuo series, where the world is ruled by a regime following ancient Imperial Chinese traditons, Wei-Chi (the Chinese name for Go) fulfills this trope. All the characters who are master strategists are described as masters of Wei Chi, while you can tell who the not so bright characters are because they will suck at the game. One villian actually ranks his opponents by observing them play, while another refuses to play so as not to reveal his capabilities.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Superstar", Jonathan has made a spell to turn himself into a Black Hole Sue. One of the first things we see the new suave Jonathan doing is beating Giles at chess while simultaneously teaching slaying strategy to the rest of the Scoobies.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e30f4153	comment	On Major Crimes: Sharon Raydor's foster son Rusty laments that he won chess trophies before his biological mother abandoned him and he was forced to become a hustler to survive. Sharon helps him rediscover his love of chess and he uses the game to test the intelligence of many people, including his therapist.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis, this trope is used to show Hidden Depths for both Sheppard and Zelenka. Sheppard might seem like your average Military Maverick surviving solely thanks to his charm, Improbable Piloting Skills and sheer luck, but he's a better chess player than McKay, the top scientist on Atlantis. Zelenka is chronically overshadowed by McKay and often relegated to the role of Beleaguered Assistant, but he wipes the floor with all the other scientists when they spend their day off playing chess. Elizabeth Weir also plays it - while not a scientist, with two phd's and a career as one of the best diplomats in the world, it's clear she's no slouch in the brains department.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e5964cdb	comment	Henry, who believes himself to be mentally superior to all with him in Ward V, loves Chess and is always trying to get the others to play with him.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The head of the Academy in GURPS Black Ops believes this, so chess is the primary mental challenge given to recruits. At the end of the second year, there is a giant chess tournament among all remaining recruits.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e6267766	comment	In the Star Wars Legends fanfic series TIE Fighter, Thrawn and his wife play a Chiss board game called wei-jio that seems to be a variation on the game Go with a piece-capture goal similar to chess. Thrawn being Thrawn, he's very good at it.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: The (minor) reveal that the headmaster plays Go with Evangeline has a minor storytelling significance: one of the highest marks of superior skill in Go is not to beat your opponent so much as to control the game's outcome without your opponent realizing it... which often means playing the Stealth Mentor.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_e87e2ef8	comment	Subverted in The Wandering Inn, where Erin Solstice is revealed to have been a chess prodigy as a child and can play chess close to the Grandmaster level, despite being generally naive and hapless in other areas of life. In-Universe, however, most characters seem to believe in this trope, because chess is linked to the Tactician class.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Brian Griffin & Stewie Griffin play chess during their cross-country trip with Quagmire.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ea787cd1	comment	Some of the Forgotten Realms novels have a drow variant of chess called sava, where there is an extra component: a pair of dice. A player can opt to not move their own pieces in favor of rolling the dice. If they get a double spider, they can move one of their opponent's pieces. This is supposed to represent the drow tendency for treachery.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_eb049de6	comment	In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Holmes and Moriarty play a game of chess during the climax, which acts as a metaphor for the events taking place inside the peace summit (with their respective representatives as the pieces). The pair are so smart that by the end it doesn't even stay on the board; they simply call out the moves in the middle of their ongoing conversation and Holmes successfully checkmates Moriarty both in the game and in his plot.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: Flipwart is an In-Universe game resembling chess. Marcy Wu and King Andrias, two characters known for their brilliance, are perhaps the game's best players.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ec9965ca	comment	In the second Culture novel, The Player of Games, main character Gurgeh has dedicated his life to understanding all kinds of games. Which is why he's called upon to be an unofficial ambassador to the Empire of Azad, where a game called "azad" is so fantastically complex and intricate that a person's position in the Empire is determined by their skill at the game. Even the position of the Emperor is determined by tournament. The game itself, which is only loosely described, tests a person's very philosophy and viewpoint; thus, by beating another player, you have shown that your worldview is inherently superior to theirs. Gurgeh's victory over the Emperor at the end demonstrates to the Azadians that the Culture, though slow to anger, would be utterly ruthless in an war and would likely destroy the Empire. In this way, Gurgeh has himself been used as a piece in a much larger game.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ed3aa1ba	comment	Mission: Yozakura Family: Despite being four years old, both Alpha and Hifumi know how to play chess. Hifumi regularly pesters Alpha to play it with her, while he complains that he already beat her in ten out of eleven games. It's implied that Hifumi is smart enough to beat him more often than that, but she just enjoys watching him win even as he exhausts himself playing against her.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_eedac02b	comment	Durarara!!: Izaya Orihara is far too smart to play mere chess. He instead plays a game of his own devising which uses various game pieces from chess, Go, and several other games.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_eee6d82a	comment	In A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever, the smart glasses-wearing best friend is shown at one point studying a chessboard from board level shifting angles as he did.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager also had kal-toh, a Vulcan strategy game. It was played by Tuvok, Harry Kim, Icheb, and simulations of Socrates and T'Pau. Harry once called it "Vulcan chess", prompting Tuvok to claim that "Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to Tic-Tac-Toe."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic and Doctor Doom can play a game of chess in their heads, while wandering Doom's castle in Latveria, while having various other deep discussions, with some Xanatos Speed Chess besides (i.e. Doom launching an attack on the other three with Reed having set some countermeasures in motion). In the mini-series "1-2-3-4" by Grant Morrison, Doctor Doom engaged Reed in a form of 4-D chess with an alien computer called the Prime Mover, manipulating the minds and emotions of Reed's teammates in order to destroy them. Reed realized that Doom's gambits were rigid and clumsy and was able to out-think him by being more flexible in his playing. Literally, as it turns out, as he used his elongation powers to add new structures to his brain.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_efa49b17	comment	On an episode of The Mentalist, Jane plays a game of chess with one of the world's top puzzle experts. They don't bother to use a board.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_efc923b	comment	In a related vein, one issue of Mighty Avengers shows Herc's Teen Genius ally Amadeus Cho — described as the 7th smartest person in the world (Herc fans suspect Cho might deserve a higher ranking) — defeating The Vision at chess.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f0029e13	comment	Lupin III <Pilot Film>: While establishing Lupin's character, he and Inspector Zenigata play Shōgi over the phone. Naturally, Lupin wins by having one of his pieces disguised as one of Zenigata's.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f2041376	comment	Gideon from Charmed plays chess with an evil version of himself from the Mirror Universe.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f3ef0f86	comment	One of Artemis Fowl's covers was a chess prodigy. The guard, also a chessmaster (not that kind), didn't believe it and challenged him to a game. Artemis beat him in six moves.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f481d3e4	comment	A viral add for Prometheus took the form of an advertisement for the David 8 model android, including a scene where two David's are playing chess with each other.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f4857d3	comment	Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai: Immortal Sorcerous Overlord Vearn owns a set of priceless Orichalcum chess pieces and has been known to wax eloquently about the beauty of the game in his spare time, even using it in a lecture to one of his subordinates on how a talented commander can benefit from subordinates with a diverse set of skills. This gets a bit of a twist later on with the reveal that Vearn only selected his lieutenants from among surface dwellers because he's become so powerful over the centuries that he no longer has any true rivals, and wanted the intellectual challenge of winning through strategy rather than just steamrolling everyone with his regular forces. His actual plan, which he starts to move on halfway through the series, doesn't require his army to achieve military victory at all, just distract everyone for a while until he's in position to trigger an Instant-Win Condition.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f510a5c1	comment	Whist is also the favoured game of Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days, suiting his orderly, precise mind.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f53fe2fa	comment	In the original Mission: Impossible, there was always a chessboard visible in the apartment scene. In the unsold pilot Call To Danger, Peter Graves again played the mastermind of an IMF-type organization, and made moves on many chessboards against (presumably) by-mail opponents while waiting for results of a computer run.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f554e011	comment	Katawa Shoujo: Shrinking Violet Hanako loves chess, and indeed, it seems to be one of the only joys she has left in her otherwise miserable life - as well as the method via which she first opens to Hisao. However, in a slight subversion, the fact that she loves playing chess doesn't necessarily mean that she's any good at it (which is understandable, given that for years the only person she had to play against was her best friend Lilly, who is blind). Meanwhile, scheming megalomaniacal genius Shizune would much rather play Risk... When she does decide to play chess against Hanako, she easily wipes the floor with her all the while giving her a silent psychological analysis based on her play style. And her deduction, that Hanako doesn't really like chess so much as she likes her memories that are associated with playing chess, turns out to be perfectly accurate.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f57a7674	comment	Wyrd's tabletop game Malifaux gives us a scene featuring Outcast Leveticus and his sort-of-apprentice Rusty Alyce playing a game in their free time, which concludes in Leveticus placing Alyce in check after explaining that she is too rigid in her style and needs to adapt as the game goes on. Alyce then proceeds to blow a hole in the board where Leveticus's checking piece had been placed with her Clockwork Seeker, asking if that was adaptable enough.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f5e6b493	comment	Sort of played with in the first of Jacques Futrelle's The Thinking Machine mysteries. The title Great Detective, and Insufferable Genius, has never played chess before and doesn't have a high opinion of it. He learns the basic rules of the game, then applies his intelligence to defeat a chess grandmaster on his first try. Of course, his brainpower includes, as the rest of his adventures show, Sagan's Required Secondary Powers for chess of "strategy, foresight, analytical powers, and the ability to cross-correlate large numbers of variables and learn from experience".
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "Like Angels Put in Hell by God", Lestat and Claudia's chess games are fundamentally about who is the superior strategist between the two of them. Lestat had previously won all of their matches, but then Claudia is finally victorious, and she interprets it as proof that she can now outmaneuver Lestat in the real world (i.e. liberating herself and Louis from his Gilded Cage). As showrunner Rolin Jones elaborates in the "Episode Insider" featurette:
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f655ed11	comment	In the Frasier episode "Chess Pains", Frasier invites Martin to play him at chess. Since his father's far less educated and erudite than him, he expects little challenge, and becomes frustrated when he can't win a single match. Martin points out that thirty years as a cop taught him a few things about strategy. Frasier being Frasier, he diagnoses himself with previously-unnoticed daddy issues causing him to subconsciously throw the game rather than admit Martin's better than him (although given his near-breakdown when he actually wins one he may have had something of a point).
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f68827dd	comment	My Little Pony: The Movie (1986): The Moochic and his rabbit assistant Habbit are seen playing a game of three-dimensional chess. Habbit wins.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko: Aelita and JÃ©rÃ©mie are sometimes seen playing chess. Another time, when Ulrich gets easily beaten by JÃ©rÃ©mie, he suggests a karate rematch. Aelita and Yumi are also seen playing Go at the beginning of one episode.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_f8dec398	comment	In Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto, Cesare Borgia (a 16-year-old student at the time) and his classmate Angelo da Canossa play chess while they discuss their situation in a scene towards the middle of the series. Angelo, a Florentine commoner through whose eyes we see Cesare (already well on his way to becoming the Magnificent Bastard), has come a long way from the NaÃ¯ve Newcomer he was in the beginning, always putting his foot in his mouth and needing Cesare to rescue him. Their playing chess together shows that Cesare has started to respect his intelligence and see him as something closer to an equal.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_fc281dbc	comment	In the historical novel The Sunne in Splendour, Anne Neville wishes to learn to play chess, but her father the Earl of Warwick dismisses the idea that any girl, let alone Anne could learn. Her cousin, Richard of Gloucester, offers to teach her and she learns well, showing that she isn't just kind but also smart. As adults, they are married and often play together.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_fd8221d2	comment	Wikipedia's page for Alzheimer's disease states: "Intellectual activities ... have been linked to a reduced risk of AD in epidemiological studies, although no causal relationship has been found." Guess what they show a picture of to indicate "intellectual activities."
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Smart People Play Chess / int_fdbace96	comment	In Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher invites Ford to play a variant of chess with him in their first meeting. In this instance, Bill is invoking this trope in order to stroke Ford's ego and get him to do what Bill wants.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ff2165b	comment	In the "Strange Fruit" episode of Cold Case, a white suburban housewife is initially infuriated to find a strange black boy (the Victim of the Week) in her house (mistakenly assuming that he's cavorting with the housekeeper) until she looks at the chess board she has set up and instantly realizes from the move that he made that he's a terrific player. It kicks off an very unusual friendship. . .which unfortunately sets in motion a chain of events that lead to his murder.
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Smart People Play Chess / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation A brilliant tactician defeats Data at a chess-analogue game. In the rematch Data defeats him by making moves to stalemate rather than win until the tactician Rage Quits. In another episode, Troi beats Data at 3-D chess. While Troi is intelligent, she explains that she's plating by intuition, which she says can sometimes beat pure logic. (This is a highly questionable statement, unless 3-D chess is a very different game with only superficial similarities to regular chess.) In yet another episode, Barclay gains super-intelligence from an alien probe. When this is reversed at the end of the episode, Barclay discovers that he has retained the ability to play chess as a residual effect.
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The Queen's Thief / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Reynard Cycle / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Riyria Revelations / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Tripods / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Wandering Inn / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Westing Game / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Woman in White / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Thud! / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Utopia / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Whodunit Mysteries / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Wolf Hall / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
FederationOfTheHub	seeAlso	Smart People Play Chess
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Smart People Play Chess
Blood Blockade Battlefront (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Death Note (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Fabricant 100 (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Go, Go, Loser Ranger! (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Lychee Light Club (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Maid-Sama! (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
PandoraHearts (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
When Will Ayumu Make His Move? (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Chess (1984) (Music) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
LEARN (Podcast) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Wolf 359 (Podcast) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Ultimate Crossover Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
All Rise / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Banacek / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Billions / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Bob Hearts Abishola / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Born To Be A Flower / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Cheers / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Colditz / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Columbo / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Dollhouse / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Dong Yi / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Eureka / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Family Ties / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Gossip Girl (2007) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Itaewon Class / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
John Adams / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Joy of Life / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Land of the Giants / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Mahou Sentai Magiranger / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Major Crimes / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Mr. Robot / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Murder Rooms / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Mysterious Ways / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
No Ordinary Family / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Payback 2023 / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Princess Returning Pearl / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Queenmaker / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
ReGenesis / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Rizzoli & Isles / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
RoboCop: The Series / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Scorpion / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Sherlock Holmes / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Signed, Sealed, Delivered / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Sister Boniface Mysteries / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Smart Guy / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Supergirl (2015) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Advisor's Alliance / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Afterparty / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Hollow Crown / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Mentalist / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Mod Squad / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Order / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Queen's Gambit / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The West Wing / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Three Kingdoms / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Vienna Blood / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Vikings / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Warehouse 13 / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
White Collar / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Wolf Hall / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Champions (Tabletop Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Chess (Tabletop Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Trail of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Checkers (Tabletop Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
A Legionary's Life (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Beyond Good & Evil 2 (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Blade Runner (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Blade Runner (1997) (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Exit Fate (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Hero-U (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Judgment Rites (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
KGB (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Killer7 (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Kingdom Hearts III (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Kings Quest (2015) (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Mega Man Unlimited (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
MouseHunt (2008) (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Sabres of Infinity (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Horus Hersey: Legions (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Sims 2 (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Watch_Dogs (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Yesterday (Video Game) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Funbag Fantasy (Visual Novel) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Love, Election & Chocolate (Visual Novel) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Zodiac Trial (Visual Novel) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane (Visual Novel) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Digital Series (Web Animation) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
ContraPoints (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Death Note Abridged Hikari Pop (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Matthew Santoro (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Trash Taste (Web Video) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
League of Super Redundant Heroes (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Lore Olympus (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The God of High School (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Art of Manliness (Website) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Amphibia / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Beware the Batman / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Detentionaire / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Extreme Ghostbusters / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Gargoyles / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Geri's Game / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Inhumanoids / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Life with Louie / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Madame Tutli-Putli / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Ninjago / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Ready Jet Go! Space Camp / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Superman: Red Son / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Teen Titans / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Teen Titans (2003) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Swan Princess / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Xiaolin Showdown / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Bamse (Comic Book) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Noir Ange / Fan Fic / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Posterchildren / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
smartpeopleplaychess	sameAs	Smart People Play Chess
Hikaru no Go (Manga) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Seventeen Moments of Spring / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess

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