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Think Logically

Title text: I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts.

Explanation

Chess is a very well analyzed game. Chess strategy is not trivial.

Cueball's friend wanted to shut him up so he showed him just how bad a player Cueball is.

Cueball then proceeds to blame the game instead of his skills.

The title text further elaborates on the theme by noting that high level players have ignored the proposed rules, probably due to said rules being incredibly stupid and flawed.

Transcript

[Cueball is watching a friend of his play chess on a laptop computer.]

[Friend makes a move]

[Cueball]: Why'd you move your knight away?

[Cueball]: Just think logically. The goal is checkmate, so you should always move pieces toward the other player's king.

[Cueball]: I guess occasionally you need to move backward, but it'd be trivial to make a list of those circumstances and-

[Friend interrupts]

[Friend]: Have you ever Played chess?

[Cueball]: Not much, but-

[Friend interrupts again]

[Friend]: Wanna?

[Cueball]: Uh, ok

[4 and a half turn into a new chess game]

[Friend]:Checkmate.

[Beat panel with Cueball looking at the game board.]

[Cueball]: This game isn't very well designed. For starters knights are too weak...

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