kasran, fourier transfemme @typhlosion@awoo.space

this is the face of a man who has just gotten a professional like 40-50 year old chess commentator to say "he started with king e2, aka the bongcloud, what would you have done against that"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qATl41Ofjuo

here's the madman doing it, and then winning, in a tournament

i....

well

oh and here's the world's second best chess player playing the bong cloud on stream as fast as possible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOd222WIEk8

he has an entire playlist of just playing this terrible opening

however, the greatest player in chess right now (magnus carlsen) likes to take this a step further

he plays the Improved/Inverted Bongcloud.

you move your two pawns out of the way, and then circle your queen all the way around before bringing it back to right next to where it started

thus you spend the first 6+ moves of the game doing NOTHING BUT SWITCHING THE PLACE OF YOUR KING AND QUEEN. NO OTHER MOVES HAPPEN. YOU GAIN NO GROUND. YOU FUCK YOURSELF

and yet he wins games with it

to explain this: the bongcloud is a joke opening where you move your king forward within the first 3 moves of the game. this is basically never, ever a good idea, it's called the bongcloud as a joke

however, some of the best chess players in existence like to play stuff like this just to kinda. flex on their opponents and make the game harder for themselves because they're just that fucking good

learning about a chess move called the inverted bongcloud

yeah boi #antifascism