Just because chess is such a serious pursuit does not mean one cannot get a little trivial around the game. With India’s Viswanathan Anand and Norway’s Magnus Carlsen ensuring all eyes on Chennai as they battle it out for the World Chess Championship, here is some inexplicable, ridiculous tripe about the game and its players. Certainly not worth the cerebral pedestal that the game is put on. After all, who, with any kind of brain writes this kind of stuff? Maybe, somebody with a single digit IQ, like this columnist, perhaps, who is wondering…

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