is chess the easiest game ever invented?

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cellomaster8
If chess is the easiest game invented, then are you technically “stupid” because you’re rating is below 2000
theSongRemains
FishNugget wrote:

Too much trolling, yet the troller can't spell or use grammar correctly. No point of trying to change his mind at this point. Any other arguments in this thread are pointless. 

ur rating is 1100

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cellomaster8 wrote:
If chess is the easiest game invented, then are you technically “stupid” because you’re rating is below 2000

ur rating is similar to mine lol

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JustOneUSer
#9

Oh yes, as a cat can make complicated moves lasting several games with the right pieces.

A cat can kick a ball easier than it can pic up and move a piece in the right order.

I mean you must find trolling harder then chess cuz this is the worst troll thread I've seen since about Feburrary.
JustOneUSer
#24

The cat moved a random piece. It made an illegal move.

It could play checkers or snakes and ladders or football a hell of a lot easier.
cellomaster8
The song remains, are you secretly Lyudmil Tsvetkov?
macer75

The OP actually might not be the first person to raise a similar point. Has anyone else read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"?

An excerpt:

Whist has long been noted for its influence upon what is termed the calculating power; and men of the highest order of intellect have been known to take an apparently unaccountable delight in it, while eschewing chess as frivolous. Beyond doubt there is nothing of a similar nature so greatly tasking the faculty of analysis. The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. When I say proficiency, I mean that perfection in the game which includes a comprehension of all the sources whence legitimate advantage may be derived. These are not only manifold but multiform, and lie frequently among recesses of thought altogether inaccessible to the ordinary understanding. To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; and, so far, the concentrative chess-player will do very well at whist; while the rules of Hoyle (themselves based upon the mere mechanism of the game) are sufficiently and generally comprehensible. Thus to have a retentive memory, and to proceed by "the book," are points commonly regarded as the sum total of good playing. But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced. He makes, in silence, a host of observations and inferences. So, perhaps, do his companions; and the difference in the extent of the information obtained, lies not so much in the validity of the inference as in the quality of the observation. The necessary knowledge is that of what to observe. Our player confines himself not at all; nor, because the game is the object, does he reject deductions from things external to the game. He examines the countenance of his partner, comparing it carefully with that of each of his opponents. He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each. He notes every variation of face as the play progresses, gathering a fund of thought from the differences in the expression of certainty, of surprise, of triumph, or chagrin. From the manner of gathering up a trick he judges whether the person taking it can make another in the suit. He recognizes what is played through feint, by the air with which it is thrown upon the table. A casual or inadvertent word; the accidental dropping or turning of a card, with the accompanying anxiety or carelessness in regard to its concealment; the counting of the tricks, with the order of their arrangement; embarrassment, hesitation, eagerness or trepidation --all afford, to his apparently intuitive perception, indications of the true state of affairs. The first two or three rounds having been played, he is in full possession of the contents of each hand, and thenceforward puts down his cards with as absolute a precision of purpose as if the rest of the party had turned outward the faces of their own.

theSongRemains
VicountVonJames wrote:
#24

The cat moved a random piece. It made an illegal move.

The cat made a move called Cat's En passant which is a legal move.

JustOneUSer
Not how en passent works, stop the trolling