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Chess stopped mattering 80 years ago, actually, and I'm very polite about it
A formal letter-style text on a dark background expressing an absurdly rigid stance that chess history ended with Alexander Alekhine's death in 1946. The message is presented as a sincere apology while making an objectively ridiculous claim about dismissing nearly 80 years of chess history.
Extracted text:
Dear colleague,
I am truly sorry, but I am not at all interested in the history of chess after 1945. For me, the history of chess 'ends' in 1946 with the death of A. Alekhine.