Elon Musk Goes Trolling

According to the recent post, Where Was I? (November 2024), Mondays could be for a new series on AI comics. Sounds good to me, but on what theme?

While I was preparing that post, I browsed bookmarks that had accumulated since I cut back on blogging almost six months ago. One in particular caught my attention: Elon Musk criticizes chess... again! (chessbase.com; Albert Silver):-

In what is now a recurring theme, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, once again took to his now owned Twitter/X to rain hell and fire on the royal game, complaining once more about its many shortcomings, with comments such as "suddenly vaporize the opponent's king with lasers from space", and its inability to compete with the complexity of reality.

This works for me because the first post in the previous AI comics series was Elon Musk and Squirrels (December 2023). The Chessbase.com page opined,

When those 'jokes' (attacks) become sequential and unprovoked, the term to describe them is 'trolling'.

And voila! There was my theme.

'Elon Musk plays chess with a troll.'
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The same Chessbase.com page had a photo, 'Elon Musk with his High School's "A" chess team'. There are 11 players in the photo. I'm guessing that the future King Croesus wasn't playing first board.