themaskedbishop wrote:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, after the Karjakin mess and the hootenanny that was the Nepo meltdown in our last WCC battle - we doubled down! In that most hallowed of all chess places, Sinquefeld! <snip>
The only thing that made me cringe about the Sinquefield broadcasts would be when they'd periodically break away to that female "social media" expert for an update. And I'd say to myself, "Really, Rex?"
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, after the Karjakin mess and the hootenanny that was the Nepo meltdown in our last WCC battle - we doubled down! In that most hallowed of all chess places, Sinquefield!
I mean, you gotta feel sorry for poor old Rex. He pumped millions of dollars into his St. Louis chess Xanadu and encouraged all sorts of luminaries to come help build the credibility and appeal of the joint and its contests to the world. This was it, the New Chess, finally taken seriously in the USA. Then we got The Queen's Gambit on Netflix and the world was ours, at last!
But no. We can't forget that this is finally the chosen game of cranks and crazies. Whether it's Bobby Fischer ranting about Jews, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov rambling about aliens, Nigel Short discoursing about female brains, or decades of cheating accusations involving yogurt, X-rays, or cell phones in the toilet...you can't keep the looney tunes quiet for long. As Gilda Radner once said: it's always something!
THIS time, in our ever more vulgar commonweal, it's....wait for it, kids...ANAL BEADS! Presumably buzzing in the butt when your secret hidden buddy's chess computer sez move this pawn, not that one, and he duly activates the remote pulse feature that of course is available on any decent set of rectal pleasure toys. We've even got Elon Musk to make sure everyone on the planet has heard about it!
Yeah. Chess. We've not come a long way, baby. Remember when our biggest problem was when Keres was told to take one for the Commie Cause? Oh halcyon days...
TMB