Teaching apes to play chess

We already know horses can play a mean game of chess:

However, If they spent as much time and money training the smartest apes and chimps from infancy how to play chess as they've tought some of them to learn languages, could an exceptionally intelligent ape play decent chess? 

What about African Grey parrots and other exceptionally intelligent breeds of bird, like Crows, who've demonstrated problem solving ability and tool making?  And what about whale's and dolphins?  Unless therer's been a very good study, I wouldn't rule it out.  We've been surprised before.

Is it possible that some bacteria in large enough quantities can play better chess than you through parallel processing? May seem far fetched but there's much we don't understand about other life forms because we don't communicate in their modality. For example, they are hybridizing bacteria or into electronics and computing, therefore there might be some inherent organizational quality. Some fungi can solve extremely complex routing problems quickly that are very hard for humans to to solve.

i want to see these horse games

I bet some ape could

Beautiful plumage!

Apes can be taught to play chess. Just a reward of banana after every win.

I think apes can play chess

You mean other apes, apart from humans, I suppose? You could train them to mimic playing chess...

How did this discussion come up? It's almost 7 years old

Maybe they are just horsing around.