Yep, you read that right because the Chess World was recently in turmoil due to an allegation of cheating through the medium of signals conveyed to him via an anal sex toy.
The accused offered to play the rest of the games naked in order to show people he wasn’t cheating but nobody explained how signals could possibly be conveyed through anal beads but the commentators were very careful when they talked his favorite opening but there was none of that at my school where one afternoon a week we would pack away the school books and the whole class would be taught how to play chess.
After leaving middle school, the chess dropped by the wayside and occasionally i would find someone to play against and i even had an electronic chess set so i could play against the computer but the magnetic pieces quickly got lost and knights and bishops were replaced by boys, cigarettes and alcohol.
One time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a Chess player and it does seem that there is a long list of famous chess players with a less than savoury reputation such as Stalin, Menachem Begin, Napoleon, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ivan the Terrible, Franco, Goebbels, Henry VIII, Rudolf Hess, Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Machiavelli, Bin Laden, Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Tito, Kaiser Wilhelm, William the Conqueror and Bono of U2.
My teacher told us that learning chess would serve us well in life because it would teach us to think ahead of the possible consequences of our actions but that is quite an impressive list of chess players who didn't take that message on board.
If only someone had hid the chess pieces from a young Adolf and Bono we could have avoided WW2 and the awful Zooropa album.
There does seem to be a casual link between knowing the rules of chess and rising up to become a Nazi, despot or over hyped singer so maybe we should be looking in chess clubs for the next big bad.
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