Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> (Disclaimer: I don't know how to play chess. I know the rules, I know how
> each piece can be moved, but that's not the same as "knowing how to play")

Knowing the rules doesn't really help. Trust me.

Exhibit A: Go.

The rules are trivial, and yet it is impossible to win.

(Disclaimer: By "impossible" I obviously mean "so absurdly difficult 
that the difference between this and geniunely impossible is so minute 
as to be insignificant".)

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