Peter Thiel

I mean, we already spoiled it.

I don't know if anybody knows about this, but Peter Thiel has a chess.com account with his real name, under which he's played over 50,000 games over the past 10 years.

And the reason I know it's him is, first of all, his friends are all these Silicon Valley experts.

And I put this account into a database called Opening Tree, which allows me to cross-reference his most played moves with his public tournament games that he played in the 90s.

And it's all the same stuff.

So our game went E4, E5, Knight F3, Knight F6.

I played the Stafford Gambit.

And on move six, he fell into a very... Falling for the Stafford Gambit?

What are we doing?

Well, no, no.

Okay.

Okay.

And the point is that when he takes back, played bishop takes f2, winning his queen by four.

So most players would just give up.

They would just resign in this position.

But Peter Thiel played on.

And a few moves later, he made another very elementary mistake.

He played bishop takes a7.

And this is the kind of move that you see beginners make.

Very rarely does anybody over 2,000 not see that you can just play b6 afterwards, which traps the bishop.