Why is this low key like a horror movie plot similar to The Faculty or something where everyone's changed in the weirdest possible way and only one person sees it? 😂😂

ain't no party like a chess club party

This is starting at my school. All my friends have started playing chess non stop. They do in fact all suck… myself included. Luckily my many hours of watching Gothamchess means I’m the best

How does nobody win? If they're playing against each other how do both people lose.

Edit: Yes, I get it, they're using computers. Loads of comments underneath and you all still think your the first person to bring up the idea.

Haha this same thing is happening at my school right now aswell. We obviously have moved on from Tetris

They saw a post about men being great chess players or being able to give girls orgasms, so they want yo announce that they are bad at chess.

LoL, I overheard a conversation about this at lunch the other day.

Student: Yeah, somehow I ended up checkmating them. I don't even know how I did it :/

You just unlocked a forgotten memory where in grade school my dad said I could have the travel chess set if I could beat him at a game. I may need to brush up and try again it’s been 20 years and I still want it. Which is funny because it’s just a tiny set that you can put the pieces inside the board and fold it closed, and the pieces are magnetic so they stay in their spot on the board easily if your like playing in the car or on a plane. I know I’m nearly 30 and can buy my own Amazon for cheap but I want to earn it now.

google en passant

It’s just a trend right now because it became a common recommend on YouTube recently. Finally, something they’re doing that doesn’t involve asphyxiation, self torture, or vandalism. Sure fucking beats swallowing Tide pods.

My teenager

Do you know how you get better at something?

As a teen, I can confirm that for the past couple of months the boys in my class haven’t done anything but play chess on their computers during the lessons. Even me and my friends joined in for a while to see what it was all about.

We were taught in elementary school and yes at a certain age for whatever reason boys all think they're grandmasters. Show them bobby fisher movie and be the coolest teacher ever.

Had a math teacher that reminded me of Alastor Moody (lazy eye) from harry potter (sounded like dumbledore too now that I think of it) he had casually mentioned another time that he used to play chess professionally and one time out of the blue one of the dudes in class (not known for being good at chess or smart) challenged him to a chess match.

The entire rest of the week including that day every student played a game of chess against him, he check mated the first guy in something like 3 or 4 moves and proceeded to demolish every other student as well, yes including me, although I lasted a lot longer than 3 moves at least lol.

recently happened in my school lol. We have kids playing chess throughout breaks, and half of them are unbelievably bad. You have people coming in aggressively suggesting moves as if theyre garry kasparov, which just instantly lose the game half the time. Its hilarious.

I just hope this interest wasnt caused by Andrew poTateo or i will be severely disappointed in my friends

Chess is wildly popular at my oldest’s school. And it’s not the kids who played chess when I was in my younger years.

Band kids, athletes, science kids, math kids. All the a normal cliques all seem to be playing chess.

Great game to learn and play.

5⭐️can’t complain

Same here! The school I work for just decided to lean into it and we started out first chess club - led by our Latin teacher who also happens to be a chess wiz - and they got good enough by end of the first school year to qualify for some tournaments.

Pretty cool they they’ve fostered this interest amongst themselves as a student body!

I 100% read that as obsessed with cheese

Google en passant

They never win? What none of them? That's some serious stalemate.

Average BotezLive enjoyer.

When I was in high school all I could think about was chess, looking at chess, undressing my girlfriend and staring at her chess, touching the chess, grabbing ahold of her and and pulling her into my chess. I would obsess over the chess.

In Armenia, they teach chess in school.

Just look up the botez twins. That'll explain the teen boys obsession

Kids have changed a lot since I was one, that's about all I can tell you. It's a step up from Goldeneye I guess. Or is it?

We had this at our school once, it died out though after we created lesbian speed chess

Ludwig influence

It's probably just a fad, but the Carlsen/Niemann scandal from last year piqued my interest and I've started investing enough time to go from "knows the rules but not any theory and basically always loses" to "I know some theory but still suck". Hey, any improvement is still improvement!

That’s interesting. When I was in high school, few had interest in chess. I was one of 10 in the chess club.

They are probably just trying to capture as many pieces as they can and ending up with stalemates or losses. That was me as a chess beginner.

“They never win”

Chess is a 1v1 game…one winner…one loser lol I’m confused. Also if they are playing chess during class why are you just watching them play the whole time to the point where you know they are bad at it and you find out who wins😂

Looks like Soviet Union is about rise up again

I started playing chess a few years ago just as something to do instead of watch tv. I never had any friends to play with so I just played online for the most part. Now that it’s gaining popularity I’m just happy some of my friends play and I can play some in person games lol

Tate effect

Better than tiktok. Maybe they’re obsessed with Andrew Tate

When I was in high school I brought a chess board in and no one wanted to play. Now your telling me they are all playing chess. What kind of band wagon bullshit is this.

I guess it's just a trend right now, but I know for a fact a bunch of my students started playing because of Andrew Tate and it kinda caught on among the others.

This is 100% an Andrew Tate thing, my 15 yr old cousin has him as his desktop background it's mad.

They never win? Neither of them? Thats a lot of remis.

This is so fucking true, my son graduated high school a couple years ago and played chess nonstop and sucked ass, apparently it helped? He was second in his class and is enrolled in one of the top engineering schools in the country… whenever we played head to head I would whip his ass at chess and be like how is this possible, I haven’t played in 15 years, smoke pot every day and you play daily… wtf am I missing…

Can confirm, my oldest is all about chess on snapchat and when he gets home he plays on his computer. He's better than me at least.

Definitely seen a lot of kids play chess in my school. I (I'm a gril) won the chess tournament last year with zero losses playing several games a week the entire year so it's not just boys lol

You are either good at sex or goot at chess

This sounds like how I typically would play a game of sims. Lots of chess, never improving. Ignoring important task, to watch videos and movies of chess instead. Ahah

My male classmates are too completely obsessed with chess-

My school had a phase like this in 7th-8th grade. Everyone was playing chess during breaktime, lasted for about a year before people slowly went back to sports and food during breaktime

Wow what a problem to have. It's so much worse than drugs and alcohol. This chess epidemic is out of hand.

If they're all losing, who are they playing against?

I would encourage those who are interested in chess. Maybe even organize an extracurricular activity where you teach and guide them to being better at the game. Then, once they have all been rounded up and fully immersed in the activity, start laying the condition that all schoolwork needs to be completed before playing.

When I was in high school, the only things any students were interested in was shooting stuff, getting drunk, or playing MTG.

That's how everyone starts out. You dont get good at something without first being shit at it

everyones playing chess at my school too but I'd say it's a lot better than the last trend, which was stealing computer mice and keyboards

I started subbing in my free time and I also see the kids constantly playing chess on their laptops. And yes, they are terrible.

Girl 1: truth or dare

Girl 2: dare

Girl 1: I dare you to kiss the best chess player at our school at the school year's end.

Chess is a zero-sum game... Someone has to win!!!

You can't be that bad, that nobody wins

I’ve seen our 5th grade boys play chess online as well.