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MacReady SUCKS at chess..

posted 4 years ago by bobbydallas (8210)
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his king is wide fucken open.

if you pause the position after he moves (the White King) Kh1 there is literally a mate-in-one when Black plays ... Bb7+

with best play White can prolong the defence by giving up the Queen Qd5.. Bxd5+ and then the Rook on Re4.. Bxe4#

[–] pjl69 (2538) 4 years ago

You're cheating, bitch...

[–] bobbydallas (8210) 4 years ago

LOL famous losing words

[–] Kowalski (63699) 4 years ago

"CHEATIN' BITCH"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv_XaPp-XIY&feature=emb_logo

[–] FootOfDavros (7282) 4 years ago

The computer in fact WAS literally cheating!

She calls checkmate when he's not even in check. No wonder he was pissed off!

Not exactly stockfish...

[–] bobbydallas (8210) 4 years ago

HAL 9000 > stockfish

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20766) 4 years ago

The J&B was obscuring things.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

He also ruined a fairly expensive computer with his tantrum.

Couldn't he have just contented himself with deleting the chess program?

[–] djj93312 (87) 4 years ago

It didn't have a chess program. It WAS a chess program. That's what it did. That's all it did. It was an electronic chess playing machine.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

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

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7511) 4 years ago

Yeah. I thought that was dumb myself but I have gotten angry at a hard video game before.

[–] Redsfan001 (6049) 4 years ago

In the mid 1980's, I broke my Radio Shack chess-player board by slamming my fist into it after a loss.

For a short time afterwards, you feel like you won.

[–] bobbydallas (8210) 4 years ago

hahaah

[–] Gd5150 (11305) 4 years ago

What’s worse is he destroys the computer and it’s only the first week of winter. Now he’ll spend the rest of winter with nothing but his dick in his hand.

Wonder how much J&B they packed.

[–] Cognoscente (2502) 3 years ago

Ironically, the original screenplay ended with MacReady playing chess with Childs.

[–] bobbydallas (8210) 3 years ago

^ did it really?!
that's hilarious.

[–] Cognoscente (2502) 3 years ago

Yeah, the novelization ended with that.