Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "He Had The Most Incredible Mind In History, Until This Happened" video.

  1. chess players be like that. chess grand masters were huge celebrities in the soviet union, they knew that they could get away with a lot more than other soviet citizens. in fact, top chess players HAD TO be treated well by the state because they had plenty of freedom to travel that they could have used to request asylum somewhere else and then play chess for another country (well, unless they had relevant family in the soviet union to leverage against them) - that would have been a propaganda disaster! for the soviet union, chess was like having a gold medal subscription in an olympic discipline that implies that your country is the smartest. the soviets were very interested in olympic medals too (and world leaders in doping xD), but winning at chess was better PR than any other sport could ever be.
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  2. couldn't he have just switched to go?
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  3. how the fuck does one get an IQ score of 180 as a high school dropout? 0_O
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