These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Chess
The Game
Alternate Character Interpretation: In Shogi (a Japanese chess variant), the "king" has also been viewed as representing the children of that player's color — the future, if you will.
Ending Fatigue: Some novice games can drag on for quite a while, especially when it's just chasing the king around the board. Professional players would have resigned long ago at this stage. This is the reason why the fifty-move rule was invented (which is still pretty long for an average game).
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Having evolved in India, the Middle East and Southern Europe, modern chess has been dominated by Russians.
Nightmare Fuel: Some of the neuroses, pathological behaviors and/or full-fledged psychoses suffered later in life by many historical masters invites the question of just what impact long-term intense study of the game has on the human psyche.
Scrappy Mechanic: Explaining castling to a new player can get pretty daunting. Even in intermediate play a lot of confusion can still occur as to what is or isn't a legal castling scenario.
The Musical
Alternate Character Interpretation: Anatoly Sergievsky—troubled Anti-Hero pulled apart by the demands of everyone in his life who eventually decides to stand up for himself? Or a spoiled Jerkass whose great success and beautiful family aren't enough, so he abandons the latter, and eventually admits his first obligation is to himself?
Badass Decay: The versions that have "Pity the Child" in the first act result in Freddie becoming Walter's puppet without anything to save his character from being anything more than a Jerkasspawn with delusions of grandeur.
Crowning Music of Awesome: "Endgame"—particularly the last minute of it— as well as "Anthem", and "Pity the Child".
"Mountain Duet".
"Nobody's Side" is worth a mention too.
The sheer complexity of "Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility)" is also worth mentioning.
Draco in Leather Pants: Freddie seems to get this a lot from the fanfic writers, but not so much from the rest of the fandom.
See the entry for Alternate Character Interpretation above. The latter interpretation leaves Anatoly as an even bigger a-hole than Freddie, so naturally the fangirls are gonna set about making him even more sympathetic.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The 2006 World Championship match, anyone? Danailov would fit perfectly into this show.
Tear Jerker: Many folk who, for their own reasons, have had to leave the country they were born and raised in, have reported bursting into tears when they hear "Anthem."
The Woobie: Mischa in the Swedish production. Maybe his grandma as well.
Depending on the production (and the actor), "Pity the Child" can almost turn Freddie into one.
