What if Chess Wasn't a Thing

What if chess wasn't a thing? What impact would it do to our lives? What would you do, just sit around playing boring solitaire or checkers, no offense I like them too. Thought what would you do? The impact would change the first Harry Potter book and movie, more importantly life and the international league. 

Some of us remember before Chess existed 

If there was no chess, there are other board games.  Go is probably what the brightest would be attracted to.

I assume you mean what would happen in a parallel universe where chess doesn't exist.In this situation,we'd still be living a pretty normal life.Now how am I supposed to know what will change,just like what you mentioned above about harry potter and such?Sure this site wouldn't exist.Nor would lichess,chesstempo,chess24,and all the others.But it still would be a life that'd be considered normal.There is always something that can be replaced with the chess scene in harry potter.Perhaps another board game,or something entirely different!Maybe they wouldn't even pack in that scene at all!In the universe we're living in,there is a board game that doesn't exist,but even if it was as popular as chess if not more,it doesn't exist!Our lives right now are seemingly normal even without that board game,right?Same thing.Based on your post,you seem to think life without chess would be worse.Perhaps that would be true if everyone in the world shared that mentality with you,assuming they're not from that parallel universe,but in reality there is nothing worrisome about "a potential non-existence of chess".

Poker??

WOW!Geez I need to watch more of this stuff!