Over a billion people play chess.

And let me tell you something.

Even if you're not interested in it, let me tell you something about chess.

It's two armies facing each other on this board game and they're going to war and

this is called the game of kings kings used to play this because it's like a safe way to practice

war without anybody actually dying even though losing a game of chess feels you feel like you're dying like i've seen i well i was just in

a tournament yesterday and i saw a kid it was in the final round and this kid was like a teenager

and he was losing his final round game and he started crying at the board it feels really you

sit there for four hours five five hours, six hours sometimes,

and you're putting your whole brain into it.

And all, like supposedly Magnus Carlson, the best player in the world,

burns 10,000 calories a day playing chess because that's how much energy the brain takes.

But anyway, you're putting all this energy in and you lose after all these hours of trying

so hard, you feel like it's like a death and people cry.

I've cried after losing.

But also, it's like this safe way to practice adversity in life.

Like I've won a lot of games in my day,

but I've also lost so many games.

It's a great way to practice losing, feeling horrible,

and then coming back the next day,

having learned from it, bouncing back just as strong.

And I think people have realized this in our culture lately because, first off, we had the

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