The Best Troll Chess Games

Imagine you are a Chess Player named Crafty. Wait a minute... isn't that a Chess Program? Well, if you thought that, you would be absolutely correct. Now you might be thinking, "I recognize that name, wasn't Crafty viciously trolled by Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura?" Yes. Yes it was. Now let's look at this hilarious game.

WOW, that was a lengthy game. So to save you the boredom of going through the whole game, I'll go over some of the key moves.

5. O-O: Already Crafty makes its first mistake. d4 would have been a better move, as it would allow to develop the Dark-squared bishop. The position after this was still even. The move was not too detrimental, as on its next move, Crafty would play d4.

15. Rae1: The better move would have been Kh1. After this move, Nakamura would continue to develop an advantage, and in a few moves, Nakamura's position is almost impossible to recover from.

76. ...Kxg5: After Crafty gets its position destroyed, Crafty's final active pawn gets captured, ensuring an almost certain victory for Nakamura. A few moves later, Crafty's final non-pawn piece gets captured.

90. ...a4: A few moves later, Nakamura is pushing pawns to the end. If he promotes to a queen with any of his pawns, he will checkmate Crafty a few moves later. So surely that's what he will do right? Well, this is where the trolling begins. 

92. ...a1=N: He promoted to a Knight. Ok... interesting choice.

103. ...b1=N: Ok, another Knight. But then Nakamura promotes more, and more knights.

144. ...d1=N: After 31 moves, Nakamura has promoted all his pawns into knights. 

155. ...Nfg3#: After humiliating Crafty, Nakamura takes the win.

This game was definitely a funny sign of trolling, but Hikaru was not done yet. The next year, Nakamura would strike again, trolling a different Chess Program, Rybka.

After Hikaru Nakamura showed that he can troll in chess, Hikaru showed his prowess again. In 2008, Rybka was his next victim.

Once again, to spare you from reading all 271 moves, I will add notations below.

12. O-O-O: The better move would have been Ne2, now Nakamura has a slight advantage.

31. b4: After a flurry of mistakes from both players, Rybka equals the game. For the next 150 moves, neither player is able to gain an advantage.

110. ...Qe6: Chess.com says this is a brilliant move for Nakamura, but didn't give any context of why.

181. Kb2: Rybka makes a huge blunder, allowing the bishop to infiltrate Rybka's defenses, giving Nakamura a major advantage. Rybka was never able to recover.

212. ...Bxc1: Nakamura captures Rybka's rook, eliminating all of Rybka's non-pawn pieces.

221. ...f1=B: Nakamura promotes to a.... bishop? This move marks the beginning of the trolling. He would proceed to promote all the rest of his pawns to bishops, in order to make a hilarious checkmate.

271. Bbc6#: Nakamura corners Rybka's king, checkmating it.

Well, Nakamura sure does know how to troll Programs, but let's look at some examples of people trolling!

So, We are going to start with a puzzle. It is one of the easiest puzzles you will ever attempt. This is because there is only one correct move in this puzzle.

DOUBLE BONGCLOUD OH YEAAAH!!! This sequence of moves has only occurred 3 times in professional OTB. Twice, this sequence of moves happened:

The two times those moves were played, were Aman Hambleton VS Eric Hansen, and Magnus Carlsen VS I wonder who it could be... Oh, Hikaru Nakamura! (Why am I not surprised....).

The other something time similar occurred, they made a few different moves. This was Vladimir Fedoseev VS Maxim Matlakov in the European FIDE World Cup Qualifier Tiebreaker 2021 tournament.

So those games were short troll games. Funny, but not very interesting. But there are longer troll games. So, get ready to view one of the trolliest games ever.

Once, I was reading about the shortest possible games, and I read about this chess game. So in 1972, two players, GM Robert Hubner, and GM Kenneth Rogoff, were playing in a World Student Team Championship, and Hubner played one move, then requested a draw. Rogoff accepted the draw, but arbiters required that they played an actual game. So out of protest, they played this wacky game:

After this, the arbiters decided that both players had to apologize and play a real game later that day. Rogoff did so, but Hubner did not, so they ruled that Rogoff wins by forfeit. This game shows that if you come across a trial, to push through it by trolling and disrespecting people. (That was a joke).

We will move on to multiple troll games. Thousands, if not millions to be exact. To sum it up in 4 words, "King of the hill". Almost every single game. If you didn't win by checkmate, with rarely happens in KOTH, then you are wasting your time (Unless you enjoy KOTH, I am not telling you what to like and dislike).

Now that I am finished my little rant, let's finish with one more thing: The Trolliest Opening. And I bet many of you can expect what I am talking about. That's right, The Fools Mate!

I have only ever won three times beating my opponent like this. One time, they were trolling and another time, it was against my 5-year-old brother. The last time, was against the 1900 Rated chess bot, Olga. No 1900 should fall for that, bot or not.

Well, that brings this blog to a close. Thanks for reading this, now excuse me as I have some trolling to do!