Episode 647: Look at the Board

Overthinking It Podcast

English - November 23, 2020 05:01 - ★★★★★ - 264 ratings
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On the Overthinking It Podcast, we consider what makes our diversions so diverting. Maybe it’s because every is streaming chess now?

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather consider why chess is having a moment, how politicians and others can take the game into multiple dimensions, why the number of dimensions is to space combat in general and Star Wars in particular, and why we need these distractions at all (now not actually more than ever, but, you know, fine).

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