Elon Musk: “Vaporize the opponent’s king with lasers from space that never existed before!”

Elon Musk often tweets on the topic of chess. He joked how chess will look if it was released as a video game and even commented on accusations towards Hans Niemann

Long ago Elon Musk called chess simple and today he continued this topic. Toby Pohlen, founding member of xAI, posted on Twitter/X, “Stockfish plays moves that feel like blunders. We know they’re ~optimal; we’re just incapable of (a-priori) seeing why. A smart human may do things that feel like mistakes. It’s difficult, but try to consider the possibility that they’re right; you just don’t understand why.” [ed.note Stockfish just started its defense of the TCEC Cup] Elon Musk replied, “Chess has a tiny number of degrees of freedom compared to reality: only 64 squares, no fog of war, no tech tree, no terrain differences, same starting pieces & positions every time and you can’t invent new pieces during the game. All of those factors and more are present in reality. So it may seem like someone is close to checkmate in reality, but that doesn’t matter if they suddenly vaporize the opponent’s king with lasers from space that never existed before! Given that there are even winning moves in chess that seem like blunders to humans, then when it comes to understanding winning moves in reality, it is vastly harder to tell.“

Once again Elon Musk strikes the Tweet of the day section, where still Gukesh is the king of this week.