"Business is like cheating at chess" is a better analogy, anyway.

Where any man on the frontline can become a queen.

There's uh...a horsie! And maybe a queen. That's all my knowledge!

What is the analog, to the en passant, move in the business world?

I just make moves till I lose, draw, or win.

He could have just said "think(s)" in place of "make(s)" and it would have kind of made sense.

So cheat a lot? Sounds exactly like the strategy they use.

No no, this makes sense, you literally need to cheat.

But that is how CEO assholes work (or try to until they can't get away with it)

Source: worked with nearly a dozen CEOs of various size companies

Alpha in the software sense: pre-release, lots of bugs, definitely not ready for production, sale, or wide public viewing.

I hear you can cheat at chess by sticking a vibrator in your ass.

Maybe that's what the rich CEOs are doing to win

But he's correct. If you're rich enough you can bribe all the seconds, then you can make extra moves and irregular moves. Heck, you can just have all the seconds declare you victor.

For extra points, hire guys with guns to make sure everyone at the tournament agrees with your rules.

This is the state of modern neoliberal capitalism from the view of billionaire oligarchs and multi-national conglomerate corporations.

Well instead of "make" it should be "think" and it would be fine, you fool

It's called tempo, you sub-1800ers /s

I "know" how to play chess but when I try to play against a computer I constantly get reminded I can't move my piece there because I would be putting myself in check.

Pretty sure I've only won 2 chess games in my life. ..... Against someone at my level.

I gave up on playing chess. The game has become such a metaphor, such a fetish symbol for intellect, so every dude "knows how to play", but won't risk the humiliation of loss, and therefore won't play. I don't enjoy online chess, so I just don't get to play.

Read between the lines: they're saying that they have to cheat to win.

If he said "do them in your head" it would have made more sense lol

If you told me this before, I would be winning every game of chess I played

I don't want to ruin this meme, but he's saying a real thing in a confusing way. You have to think 10 moves ahead of your opponent and also the repercussions of each move at every step.

This explains SO much about their thinking.

is this from Trump's book?

Business is like Start Craft 2, you gotta raise your APM if you want to beat the Korean pros

After the first check you just eat their king

He doesn't tell how it works...

As every chess goalie knows you've gotta horsey around their castle two times before the end of the half.

I hope it was farce, but it's still pretty accurate. The secret is cheating and then declaring victory after the opponent refuses to play.

Maybe they misheard... When your opponent makes a move, you should be thinking 10 moves ahead...