Dumb Sterotypes average people make about Chess

“Chess is for old people”

"Little kids are good at tactics"

"Silly Rabbit, tricks are for kids"- joke/pun #10 in my April Fools vid.

“Strong players don’t have a life”

“Chess is for nerds”

“They never tip at restaurants!”

"Only jailbirds play chess."

"chess players are socially awkward"

"chess is a patient game they are so smart"

"chess is racist because white moves first"

"chess is misogynistic because:

1) the queen can get captured but the king can't

2) the queen can move much more than the king, which implies that the queen has to do everything herself

3) the king can have multiple queens"

Chess is only for "smart" people. In fact, this trope highlights the reasoning behind this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmartPeoplePlayChess

Chess is for nerds…

Chess players are losers….

Chess players are toxic…..

I can go on …..

I feel like chess has a stigma about it, that people that play the game are small, hunchback men with glasses, that sit and play the game for 20 hours a day, and overall, are very nerdy and unattractive. But this isn't the case. I mean, just look at the world's No. 1 chess player, Magnus Carlsen. I mean, boy, is he sexy, a Norwegian hunk, I'd let him take my pawn any day.

they are right about that tho

fr we should cancel chess right now 11/10

most strong players study several hours a day and do at least 1 other hobby

but why do all the kings have holes on the bottom of their green bases??? the queens should be allowed to dispose waste too!
(am i the only one who pokes holes in the king so i can make a taller tower)

"chess is pure memorization"

i remember in my old local chess club, all the pieces would have holes