Thank you for agreeing to this photoshoot Ms. St. Clair, but is there any way we can communicate you’re not terribly bright and make bad strategic choices? We want something less literal than you holding up the baby you had with Mr. Musk. What if I swap the bishops and the knights? Perfect! - ThreadSky

paleofuture.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Thank you for agreeing to this photoshoot Ms. St. Clair, but is there any way we can communicate you’re not terribly bright and make bad strategic choices? We want something less literal than you holding up the baby you had with Mr. Musk.

What if I swap the bishops and the knights?

Perfect!

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craigisonline.bsky.social•6 days ago

I like the choice to have her hold her pale arm next to her orange face. Beautiful.

thinkingrealhard.bsky.social•6 days ago

Photo stylist for the win!

hanoumatoi.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ahem, clearly this photo shoot is intended to celebrate the recent Freestyle Chess event held in Munich and won in dominating fashion by Vincent Keymer. Just ignore that this setup was not used in any games...
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davidmouritsen.bsky.social•6 days ago

The British have a word for this feeling: "gobsmacked"

mirror4truth.bsky.social•6 days ago

LOL

milanasanovic.bsky.social•5 days ago

is this the 4D checkers game (paid child care) she told me about?

nicholasgladman.bsky.social•5 days ago

We can't rule out that it's a game of Chess960/Fischer Random.

melaynalokosky.bsky.social•5 days ago

braak.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think you forget that in the Elon Musk extended universe, chess is a dumb people's game; no doubt she's playing Backwards Chess to offset the game's puerile simplicity

aldercheems.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, this genius clearly doing the Bobby Fischer thing where you shuffle the pieces.

braak.bsky.social•6 days ago

Most likely explanation is that regular chess is simply *too easy* for her.

omni-bro.bsky.social•5 days ago

Maybe she’s a champion freestyle chess player. Or maybe not 😂

notesonthewayout.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hahahaha

brendelbored.bsky.social•6 days ago

This poor stupid evil woman

cfhirsch.bsky.social•6 days ago

How do horsie move?

maryangelaperna.bsky.social•6 days ago

OMFG. Can someone explain all this madness to me like I’m 5. Does Elon talk to Ashley?!

fgcallari.bsky.social•6 days ago

They move fast and break things, among them the rules of a game which, in their present form, have stood since 1889.

strangernalps.bsky.social•6 days ago

One dimensional chess

changopeligroso.bsky.social•6 days ago

hahahahahaha

s-isabelle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ha! I thought at first it was going to be that the dark corner was on the right side of the board but even worse than that🤣🤣🤣

fraustian.bsky.social•6 days ago

Clearly you're not a golfer

changopeligroso.bsky.social•6 days ago

at least she's house trained

jmwallach.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is she tho?

fraustian.bsky.social•6 days ago

That weirdo chess set really tied the room together

changopeligroso.bsky.social•6 days ago

you mean…coitus?

…with Elon fucking Musk?!!

fraustian.bsky.social•6 days ago

lmao

thesandwichman.bsky.social•6 days ago

11-dimensional chess.

smeg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Amazing

mikesilva.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have a contender for you https://bsky.app/profile/mikesilva.bsky.social/post/3libu4o2ojs22

vomitpilled.bsky.social•5 days ago

Smartest Timcast contributor

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•5 days ago

White people demonstrating their natural superiority here.

juandefuca.bsky.social•6 days ago

she was after the "Mate" part only...and checked the rest at the bedroom door.

chambie58.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cos players all

paleofuture.bsky.social•6 days ago

I will never forget.

bobbybees.bsky.social•6 days ago

The problem with chess is that everyone can tell right away when you're paying someone to win for you

glenc.bsky.social•6 days ago

Spoken like someone who got tired of being beaten by small children as a teenager.

Musk, I mean.

videojames.bsky.social•6 days ago

Isn't Polytopia the Clash Royale version of Civilization?

hrryan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Fog of war? When the fuck did Elon ever experience the fog of war in real life?

mduni.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hair plug times

ubik12.bsky.social•5 days ago

Elon is such the perfect example of a dumb person’s idea of a smart person. Polytopia is already to Civilization what checkers is to chess. For him to then say that chess is “too simple” makes me think he’s suffering from ketamine brain damage.

bornmiserable.bsky.social•6 days ago

remember, he has a large graveyard filled with his enemies!

davekarpf.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just gonna leave this here because it will never not be funny:

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-elon-musks-favorite-game-tells

theahaykid.bsky.social•6 days ago

Meanwhile, the reviews for Battle of Polytopia are largely along the lines of "fun casually but there's not much depth to it"

aldenpyle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Translation: somewhere he had a https://chess.com account with an 1100 rating. Then it got suspended for shooting to 2200 while playing engine moves almost constantly.

paleofuture.bsky.social•6 days ago

“No fog of war” is the single funniest thing ever said about chess

operativexray.bsky.social•6 days ago

"I was disillusioned by the rook doing, I dunno, rook stuff, but I'm just a pawn...in the game of life. The fog of chess war, man."

connorstedman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Really strong entry for The Realization hall of fame.

andrewjplant.bsky.social•6 days ago

“Chess is for babies, I prefer an extremely simplified Civilization clone exclusively for mobile”

xbob42.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Well, at least the 12 people I pay to play it for me so I can stay on the leaderboards prefer it for me."

kitwrenaway.bsky.social•5 days ago

a mere eight by eight grid!

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Listen if i cant cheat im not interested

gu3.st•6 days ago

But he could literally pay someone to play online chess as him!

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trouble is too many of his sicko peers probably play chess and could set up anywhere

bodhipuff.bsky.social•6 days ago

EXACTLY.

braak.bsky.social•6 days ago

Imagine a chess variant where you can't see your opponents' pieces until you're adjacent to them.

onetruestephen.bsky.social•6 days ago

The typical Fog of War rules will only let you see opposing pieces on squares you can move to.

everydog.bsky.social•6 days ago

because pawns have too much survivability under the normal rules

sizsta.bsky.social•5 days ago

Checkers has a level up system.

oldsterinc.bsky.social•6 days ago

Isn't that Stratego?

sweordbora.hausen.com•6 days ago

Came here to write this 🤝

royx.bsky.social•6 days ago

I would pay money to watch Elon try to play Stratego

aicreative.bsky.social•6 days ago

That is actually a great idea

lowrhoufo.bsky.social•5 days ago

I've heard of variants like this. It's an interesting premise, it's just that the skill cap is a lot lower

blitz-y.bsky.social•6 days ago

Elon has chess combat fatigue

dgxio.bsky.social•5 days ago

The real nerds try to create their own chess variant. There is a fog of war chess!

carlpavlock.bsky.social•6 days ago

Idk, the technology tree is right up there

d-marquis.bsky.social•6 days ago

Speaking of The Fog of War

shanemcoyle.bsky.social•6 days ago

That sounds like something Sam Bankman Fried would say

hotgirlchristmas.bsky.social•5 days ago

once again i read an bonkers comment from some smug tool on the internet only to realize it's the man in charge of my fucking country

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•6 days ago

*snorts* duhhh there’s no skill tree

wudang96.bsky.social•6 days ago

He reminds me of the bar braggart that has done everything there is to do and now it's all so far beneath him because he's just that great. If only the rest of the universe would notice.

daughterofmercury.bsky.social•6 days ago

Surely the fog of war in chess is that you can't see into your opponents mind?

aferaldavid.bsky.social•5 days ago

it displays a fundamental misunderstanding of almost the entire game.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m a fan of him calling the pieces, their functions, the open game state and reproducibility “limitations” as if strategically outwitting your opponent under a fair set of constraints is a flaw. Then again, he is a nepotism baby with no actual skill at anything so I get what he sees it that way.

glenc.bsky.social•6 days ago

This. This exactly. "Oh this game is too simple, so why bother?" says the man who likely rage quit and threw over the board the first time someone much younger than him beat him.

majestic12.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or someone darker than him.

glenc.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oooooh good point. Or female.

royx.bsky.social•6 days ago

Polytopia addresses these limitations

popecrocodylus.bsky.social•6 days ago

I prefer Battleship, the game of geniuses.

ascotrose.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hahaha

tonyelias.bsky.social•5 days ago

So much fog of war!

lonsuder.bsky.social•5 days ago

by "no fog of war", he means "my strategies are all blatantly obvious"

ramshackleyogurt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, until Chess comes out with a propaganda DLC, it has no use to him.

maryangelaperna.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m just seeing this now as I rarely go on Twitter.

Question…does Ashley even talk to Elon, like ever?!?

This is all very bizarre. And remember, Ashley came out of that TPUSA, Babylon Bee, MAGA influencer world. Y’know, the one that’s always preaching family values