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How I Managed To Cripple the Entire Chess.com Community With Just ONE Post
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Although this will get locked, that was a revolutionary Forum! We trolled the entire Chess.com community (not everyone) and It gave us something to laugh at during quarantine!
Jul 12, 2020
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Roger436 wrote:
Although this will get locked, that was a revolutionary Forum! We trolled the entire Chess.com community (not everyone) and It gave us something to laugh at during quarantine!
Why exactly would this forum get locked?
Jul 12, 2020
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Magicalshoes wrote:
@2ke21-0 since when were you 2200?
The rating system where that number was derived is irrelevant. Either way, one rated 2147 in OTB chess should still know the en passant rule.
Jul 12, 2020
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Magicalshoes wrote:
Lol you keep flexing your established cfc rating
Yes. It is a more accurate representation of my skill!
Jul 12, 2020
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Bentcilian wrote:
What does cfc stand for again?
Calgary Football Club
Magicalshoes wrote:
Bentcilian wrote:
What does cfc stand for again?
Calgary Football Club
Isn't it Clapping Flamingo Cows
Jul 12, 2020
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stopvacuuming wrote:
unironically this is low level trolling but chess.com is so dumb it worked
nice
how do people fall for these
En Passant is a much more sensitive topic than it sounds. Perhaps it should be compared to discussions about cheating, religion, and politics. All of these topics have the potential to inflame wars and upset people; en passant is no exception.
Largely inspired by this joke forum, claiming that Iranian prodigy, Alireza Firouzja is an IM, not a GM, I gave my stab at a troll forum of my own. Intuitively, I believed that it would take a blithering idiot to believe that I, a 2200 rated player, would not understand one of the principle rules of this beloved game. But then, I realized that was just one out of millions. If he was so gullible to believe that @Ayushchessmator's general knowledge of chess was so poor, surely other people would be as well.
Having recently established myself as a star on the chess.com forums with several thousand profile views and points, I expected this forum to be a huge success. I was not disappointed. The forum "blew up" as they say, and temporarily even went viral on the Reddit forums. Within four days, the forum surpassed 1000 comments (I was sure I would receive an interview from chess.com in no time), and at the time of writing, currently contains 1,275 comments, all of which you can find in the forum "His Pawn Cheated and Killed my Pawn!" I'm sure that the number would be higher if @david the moderator had not moved the forum to the category of "Fun with Chess" upon noticing the sensitivity of certain members.
But that's not all...
My forum inspired the creation of several other forums, that either inquired about the issue or protested at my take on it. Here are a few of them. The most notable among them all is "Let's get it straight: En passant isn't cheating" by @Lc0_1, with a whopping 15,000+ comments!
The forum even gave me my own personal fan club: chess.com/club/we-hate-2ke21-0, which has now sadly been disabled. To further intensify this "cult", I created my own club, protesting against en passant, but I have now disabled it out of concern that I am in too many clubs.
How the success, sir?
Tons of credit goes to the site CEO, @erik for his article, "His Pawn Cheated and Killed my Pawn!", which I based much of the forum's content on. In the ensuing comments after the OP, I did my very best to impersonate one frustrated at losing for en passant, finding false but reasonable arguments that claimed it was illegal, including that chess.com's articles on en passant were a cover-up for the glitch a site contained, and that in over-the-board chess, such a cheat would not be allowed. Throughout the forum, words such as "on/ant peasant", "en croissant", and "onpondosdont" were used to refrain from mentioning the official terminology. To avoid people recognizing a troll based on my relatively high ratings on my profile, I pointed them to my daily rating of 1100, which came to be so low as a result of timing out in many games. @SNUDOO was so kind to even create a blog post enhancing my argument: On Peasant: The History of The HACK and HOW To Do It. But the most effective technique was master endorsements. Special thanks to CM Rohan Takru and NM Benjamin Chen for actively supporting my argument as a testimonial, and enduring ten kids a day, private messaging them, claiming that their title was fake! One person claimed that not all titled players would know every rule of the game. I did not know that not all pilots knew how to fly planes! And although she is not titled, thanks to @st0ckfish for also supporting this rant!
And just as I was inspired, I inspired many others to create their own troll threads:
I feel it safe to reveal my humble intentions now, as the forum appears to be "dying" at the moment. Nonetheless, I feel I've left a lasting effect on the chess.com community, especially to those who were fooled by my prank. Some, such as @BoomerZoom, took it so far as to report me for "Verbal Abuse". When did I ever verbally abuse anybody, lol? Anyways, please enjoy life on the chess.com forums and do not join the humorless bunch.