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** Stan and Thomas are playing chess in a park to appear smart, but it's obvious they know nothing about it: Their starting position has the pieces randomly spread on the board. They flip a coin to determine which colour goes first. They say nonsense like "horse from h3 to b9" and "tower from i3 to a7" after every move. Many of their moves aren't even legal. They say "check" and "checkmate" at random times. They make terrible blunders such as hanging pieces and failing to capture hung pieces. For most of the game, Stan's king in check with neither player noticing. Then Thomas randomly declares "Stalemate! I win!", and they pack up, even though it's neither checkmate nor stalemate - in fact, Thomas's position is clearly lost.
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** Stan and Thomas are playing chess in a park to appear smart, but it's obvious they know nothing about it: Their starting position has the pieces randomly spread on the board. They flip a coin to determine which colour goes first. They say nonsense like "horse from h3 to b9" and "tower from i3 to a7" after every move. Many of their moves aren't even legal. They say "check" and "checkmate" "check," "checkmate," or even [[TabletopGame/{{Checkers}} "king me"]] at [[GretzkyHasTheBall random times. times.]] They make terrible blunders such as hanging pieces and failing to capture hung pieces. For most of the game, Stan's king in check with neither player noticing. Then Thomas randomly declares "Stalemate! I win!", and they pack up, even though it's neither checkmate nor stalemate - in fact, Thomas's position is clearly lost.
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Back to SmartPeoplePlayChessSmartPeoplePlayChess.
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** Stan, being the guy with the ImprobablyHighIQ, intentionally does the most stupid possible blunders anyone could think of ''and still wins''.
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---> '''Stan:''' "For starters, chess assumes that you can always see your opponent's pieces."
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---> '''Stan:''' "For starters, chess assumes that you can always see your opponent's pieces.pieces, and that they'll always move the same way."
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** Stan is just plain mediocre at chess, even if he is so clever that he can be considered the smartest human being in history.
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** He still is ''trying'' to play chess, as per cultural osmosis tells him to do, and understands the rules ''just'' enough to know what the heck is going on in someone else's game. Everybody else in the cast is such an InsufferableImbecile that they are more probable to use the set as kindling for their BBQ jamborees.
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** Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playing tic-tac-toe.
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** Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playing tic-tac-toe.TabletopGame/TicTacToe.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Stan is the only chess player and the only smart guy in the cast. He has a frustrating experience when he tries to teach [[TheDitz the ditzes]] how to play chess.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Laughs''':
** Stan is the only chess player and the only smart guy in the cast. He has a frustrating experience when he tries to teach [[TheDitz the ditzes]] how to playchess.chess.
** Stan is a LargeHam who [[VerbalTic likes to add chess terms to his grandiloquent speeches]], regardless of how they are supposed to fit in the situation at hand (either the terms or the speeches).
** Stan is the only chess player and the only smart guy in the cast. He has a frustrating experience when he tries to teach [[TheDitz the ditzes]] how to play
** Stan is a LargeHam who [[VerbalTic likes to add chess terms to his grandiloquent speeches]], regardless of how they are supposed to fit in the situation at hand (either the terms or the speeches).
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* '''Played for Horror''': In a setting with the worst kind of PersecutedIntellectuals situation, having anything related to chess on your person (or even understanding the vaguest, broadest of terms that originally came from chess, such as "pawn") will be seen as proof that you are an intellectual and it will get you killed.
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** Stan is a ChaoticGood GeniusDitz hero who doesn't like chess because it's too orderly and bound by rules. He prefers {{Calvinball}}.
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** Stan is a ChaoticGood [[invoked]]ChaoticGood GeniusDitz hero who doesn't like chess because it's too orderly and bound by rules. He prefers {{Calvinball}}.
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** Stan is a ChaoticGood hero who doesn't like chess because it's too orderly and bound by rules. He prefers {{Calvinball}}.
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** Stan is a ChaoticGood GeniusDitz hero who doesn't like chess because it's too orderly and bound by rules. He prefers {{Calvinball}}.
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** Stan is good at both chess and leading real battles, but he constantly nitpicks over all the ways chess is different from actual combat. Stan: "For starters, chess assumes that you can always see your opponent's pieces."
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** Stan is good at both chess and leading real battles, but he constantly nitpicks over all the ways chess is different from actual combat. Stan: combat.
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---> '''Stan:''' "For starters, chess assumes that you can always see your opponent's pieces."
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** Stan is a ChaoticGood hero who doesn't like chess because it's too orderly and bound by rules. He prefers {{Calvinball}}.
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* '''Implied''': Stan is never shown playing chess, but he has a chess set in his room and several chess books in his bookshelf.
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** Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
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** Stan treats starts treating chess as a hobby, and doesn't try stops trying to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chesspieces pieces, but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Stan is the only chess player and the only smart guy in the cast. He has a frustrating experience when he tries to teach [[TheDitz the ditzes]] how to play chess.
* '''Played For Drama''': In-universe, chess players are perceived as "snobs who just want to show off how much 'smarter' and 'better' they are". This often gets them ostracised and bullied.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess
* '''Played For Laughs''': Stan is the only chess player and the only smart guy in the cast. He has a frustrating experience when he tries to teach [[TheDitz the ditzes]] how to play chess.
* '''Played For Drama''': In-universe, chess players are perceived as "snobs who just want to show off how much 'smarter' and 'better' they are". This often gets them ostracised and bullied.
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* '''Enforced''': The program is produced by Gary Kasparov.
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* '''Enforced''': The program is produced sponsored by Gary Kasparov.Garry Kasparov, who "strongly encouraged" the writers to include a positive portrayal of chess.
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* '''Invoked''': Alice gives her son, Stan a chess set for his birthday to help make him smarter, or at least seem smarter.
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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
** Alice gives her son, Stan a chess set for his birthday to help make him smarter, or at least seemsmarter.smarter.
** In-universe advertising tries to associate chess with intelligence.
** Alice gives her son, Stan a chess set for his birthday to help make him smarter, or at least seem
** In-universe advertising tries to associate chess with intelligence.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Stan entertains himself by playing chess against 14 other players simultaneously. ''While'' decoding ancient Uru etchings.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** Stan entertains himself by playing chess against 14 other players simultaneously. ''While'' decoding ancient Uruetchings.etchings.
** Every main character's IQ and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_world_rankings FIDE rating]] are explicitly stated and clearly correlated. The guy with an ImprobablyHighIQ is a super grandmaster, while TheDitz [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale somehow has a FIDE rating of 20 even though the minimum rating is 100]].
** Stan entertains himself by playing chess against 14 other players simultaneously. ''While'' decoding ancient Uru
** Every main character's IQ and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_world_rankings FIDE rating]] are explicitly stated and clearly correlated. The guy with an ImprobablyHighIQ is a super grandmaster, while TheDitz [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale somehow has a FIDE rating of 20 even though the minimum rating is 100]].
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** TheDitz Dana is [[GeniusDitz unstoppable at chess]]. Stan the genius barely knows how to move a pawn.
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** James goes to his local chess club to find intelligent recruits for something tricky that requires geniuses.
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** Stan the genius breaks out the chess set... and tries to play TabletopGame/{{Checkers}} with it.
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* '''Parodied''': Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playing tic-tac-toe.
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playingtic-tac-toe.tic-tac-toe.
** Stan keeps bragging about how smart he is and says he can beat anyone at chess. [[EpicFail He loses in two moves]].
** Stan and Thomas are playing chess in a park to appear smart, but it's obvious they know nothing about it: Their starting position has the pieces randomly spread on the board. They flip a coin to determine which colour goes first. They say nonsense like "horse from h3 to b9" and "tower from i3 to a7" after every move. Many of their moves aren't even legal. They say "check" and "checkmate" at random times. They make terrible blunders such as hanging pieces and failing to capture hung pieces. For most of the game, Stan's king in check with neither player noticing. Then Thomas randomly declares "Stalemate! I win!", and they pack up, even though it's neither checkmate nor stalemate - in fact, Thomas's position is clearly lost.
** Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playing
** Stan keeps bragging about how smart he is and says he can beat anyone at chess. [[EpicFail He loses in two moves]].
** Stan and Thomas are playing chess in a park to appear smart, but it's obvious they know nothing about it: Their starting position has the pieces randomly spread on the board. They flip a coin to determine which colour goes first. They say nonsense like "horse from h3 to b9" and "tower from i3 to a7" after every move. Many of their moves aren't even legal. They say "check" and "checkmate" at random times. They make terrible blunders such as hanging pieces and failing to capture hung pieces. For most of the game, Stan's king in check with neither player noticing. Then Thomas randomly declares "Stalemate! I win!", and they pack up, even though it's neither checkmate nor stalemate - in fact, Thomas's position is clearly lost.
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* '''Averted''': Stan is a genius, but isn't shown playing chess.
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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
** Stan is a genius, but isn't shown playing chess.
** Some of the characters are chess players, but there is no correlation between intelligence and playing chess.
** Stan is a genius, but isn't shown playing chess.
** Some of the characters are chess players, but there is no correlation between intelligence and playing chess.
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* '''Exploited''': James sets up a chessboard in an interesting puzzle situation to distract Stan from the trap he is about to spring.
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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
** James sets up a chessboard in an interesting puzzle situation to distract Stan from the trap he is about tospring.spring.
** Stan takes up chess to appear smarter and improve his image.
** James sets up a chessboard in an interesting puzzle situation to distract Stan from the trap he is about to
** Stan takes up chess to appear smarter and improve his image.
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** Stan is good at both chess and leading real battles, but he constantly nitpicks over all the ways chess is different from actual combat. Stan: "For starters, chess assumes that you can always see your opponent's pieces."
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* '''Inverted''': Stan is an idiot who plays chess by treating the pieces as action figures.
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** Stan is an idiot who plays chess by treating the pieces as actionfigures.figures.
** Stan is a brilliant man, but he's never been able to get the hang of chess.
** Stan is an idiot who plays chess by treating the pieces as action
** Stan is a brilliant man, but he's never been able to get the hang of chess.
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** Stan is a brilliant man, but he's never been able to get the hang of chess.
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** When forced to play, it turns out Stan is EXCELLENT at chess... it just doesn't interest him at all.
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** When forced to play, it turns out Stan is EXCELLENT ''excellent'' at chess... it just doesn't interest him at all.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': TheSmartGuy's house is full of classic 1960s-1980s TurnBasedStrategy BoardGames, including a {{Diplomacy}} set open on a table showing a midgame position. No chessboards are visible or mentioned.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': TheSmartGuy's house Our introduction to Stan is full of classic 1960s-1980s TurnBasedStrategy BoardGames, including while he's walking his beat in his job as a {{Diplomacy}} set open on a table showing a midgame position. No chessboards are visible cop, stopping to converse with his friends playing chess in the park -- but we never see him play or mentioned.talk about the game.
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** Stan has never tried chess, or does not like it, etc...
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** Stan is great at leading real battles, but his knowledge of real-life tactics [[IDontKnowMortalKombat doesn't translate well to an eight-by-eight square grid.]]
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ???Stan has an impressive degree, and is a fairly competent, but not tournament-level, chess player.
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* '''Justified''': Stan is TheChessmaster.
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** Stan is TheChessmaster.
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** Stan is TheChessmaster.
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* '''Subverted''': Stan is shown playing chess absolutely brilliantly. People assume he's smart, but he's actually an IdiotSavant.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** Stan is shown playing chess absolutely brilliantly. People assume he's smart, but he's actually an IdiotSavant.
** Stan is shown playing chess absolutely brilliantly. People assume he's smart, but he's actually an IdiotSavant.
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*** Or alternatively just never tried chess, or does not like it, etc...
* '''Double Subverted''': But despite being an IdiotSavant, he's not just a great chess player; he's a genius in other, more useful, areas as well.
* '''Double Subverted''': But despite being an IdiotSavant, he's not just a great chess player; he's a genius in other, more useful, areas as well.
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** But despite being an IdiotSavant, he's not just a great chess player; he's a genius in other, more useful, areas as well.
* '''Parodied''': Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playing tic-tac-toe.
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* '''Parodied''': Stan entertains himself between decoding ancient Uru etchings by playing tic-tac-toe.
* '''Deconstructed''': Stan begins to apply chess-like thinking to all aspects of his life... which wreaks havoc with his personal relationships.
* '''Reconstructed''': Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
* '''Deconstructed''': Stan begins to apply chess-like thinking to all aspects of his life... which wreaks havoc with his personal relationships.
* '''Reconstructed''': Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
* '''Deconstructed''': Stan begins to apply chess-like thinking to all aspects of his life... which wreaks havoc with his personal relationships.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
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**Stan doesn't treat his friends like chess pieces but learns to [[XanatosGambit find benefit regardless of a plan's success or failure]]. He learned this 'glass half full' mentality from playing chess.
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* '''Discussed''': "Let's have a friendly game of chess while I tell you about my XanatosGambit."
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* '''Discussed''': "Let's have a friendly game of chess while to demonstrate the XanatosSpeedChess I tell you about my XanatosGambit.used to OutGambit you."
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* '''Averted''': Stan is a genius, but isn't shown play chess.
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* '''Averted''': Stan is a genius, but isn't shown play playing chess.
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* '''Justified''': As a child, Stan played games daily against his father, a world-champion chessmaster.
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* '''Justified''': Stan is TheChessmaster.
** As a child, Stan played games daily against his father, a world-champion chessmaster.
** As a child, Stan played games daily against his father, a world-champion chessmaster.
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* '''Exploited''': James sets up a chessboard in an interesting puzzle situation to distract Stan from the trap he is about to spring.
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*** Or alternatively just never tried chess, or does not like it, etc...
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* '''Reconstructed''': After realizing that chess can't be applied to everything, Stan rehabilitates himself to be a friendlier, more sociable person.
** Alternatively: Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
** Alternatively: Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
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* '''Reconstructed''': After realizing that chess can't be applied to everything, Stan rehabilitates himself to be a friendlier, more sociable person.
** Alternatively:Stan treats chess as a hobby, and doesn't try to draw grand life lessons from it.
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