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This may come as a surprise, but I'm an actual chess-playing chimpanzee. Despite being an animal with no formal training other than a few Gotham videos, I've become an accomplished player, at least by great ape standards. I mostly lose to humans which explains my ELO. My intelligence and wit are unmatched among my peers, again, chimpanzees. Humans not so much. If you lost to me, I'm sorry you lost to an actual chimp.
My advice for chess is really the same advice I offer on life. Primarily:
1. You will slip on the occasional banana. Study those slips.
2. The lion may currently be in a cage, he still wants to murder you. So look before you move.
3. After the lion murders you, he also wants to eat you. So try to think about his strategy, too, not just where you want to jump your little horsey around.
4. Be nice to your opponents. You have to live with the other apes and monkeys. And the gorillas will just rip your arms off.
"Hey, if you're a chimp, why do you have the word, "monkey," in your user name?" I don't know. I played a guy the other day and his user name was MrCheezIt. I don't think he was an actual cheese cracker although he played the London which is the kind of garbage an inanimate cheese-flavored piece of cardboard would try.