At the recent Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, grandmaster Magnus Carlsen opened a game with fellow grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura by playing a meme. When Nakamura saw the stupid move, he couldn’t stop laughing and matched Carlsen’s stupid play beat for beat. The two chess champions laughed themselves silly while the commentators stammered in shock: Both men had deployed the Bongcloud Attack, one of chess’ worst possible opening moves.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7vxdx/chess-world-champion-plays-bongcloud-attack-meme-opening-in-tournament
