What animal would make the best chess player?

Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals..... except the weasel.
- Homer Simpson
Muck, muck, muck (sucking on a passie).
-Maggie Simpson

My gold fish play poker. They don't have the attention span for chess.
Except often poker lasts longer...

Poker, a sport that requires very little application of skill compared to chess, to make Poker more fun the events last ridiculously long thus making it difficult to conceal an awful hand.

Poker, a sport that requires very little application of skill compared to chess, to make Poker more fun the events last ridiculously long thus making it difficult to conceal an awful hand.
Spoken by somebody who has never tried to study poker. It is amazingly complicated.

Id hate playing a turtle.
With their "slow and steady wins the race" mentality, natural defensive capabilities, and those evil black little beady eyes that they have.
Never trust a turtle is what I always say.
the centipede of course