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I think the topic speaks for itself. Just post your biggest chess HOT takes🔥 and watch as your one singular post sparks the biggest controversy you've ever seen(it probably won't but...). Give an explanation to your take(or don't that could also work lol) and just hope you don't wake up to a million hate comments! Reply to a take with a or depending on whether or not you agree with it. I've searched multiple times to find a chess hot take forum and...I genuinely couldn't find a singular one soooooo I decided to make one of my own! Anyway here's my biggest chess hot take:
Chess is a partially luck based game. Just hear me out(Im definitely gonna get called out because of this)😅. For every move you make, it makes an impact on the overall game and the future but we obviously can't predict what you or your opponent will play for say the next 40 moves. So if you really think about it sometimes a piece will just conveniently or inconveniently be there for some crazy checkmate or your absolute demise. You can argue with something like "that's why you plan ahead" but again if you really think about it that's just an educated move and you've got no idea when or how it'll actually end up helping you sometimes. Positions can get weird and even a single pawn you ended up pushing 1 square up like 20 moves ago can make an absolute comeback into the game and do all sorts of things like: promote, just conveniently be there to cut off your opponent's king, being the game winning piece by somehow forcing a checkmate, etc. Chess has emergent outcomes and while you can somewhat control it by preparing yourself you'll never be able to fully predict the outcome. So whether or not you agree with me I think that chess is partially luck-based(ok it's not like I'm saying it's mostly luck or anything).