Thrawn vs Spock chess match

[Sarevok]

Is there any evidence that Spock has ever played 2D chess at all?

I dont recall seeing Spock play modern chess in TOS series or in the movies.

[RedImperator]

Just because Thrawn is a great battlefield commander doesn't mean he'll be a great chess player. Patton was undoubtedly a better general than Kasparov would have been. Does that mean if Patton were still alive, he could whip Kasparov's ass in a chess match? Chess is an abstraction with strict rules, and it's a game with which Spock is familiar and Thrawn isn't.

[Prozac the Robert]

Is there any evidence that Spock has ever played 2D chess at all?

I dont recall seeing Spock play modern chess in TOS series or in the movies.

It apears (to me at least) that 2d chess is a sort of subset of 3d chess. I imagine that it is a lot easier to go from 3d to 2d than vise versa, and both are probably easier than starting from scratch.

Also I can't see thrawn's greatest strength, his prediction of his opponents actions, helping him much. Spock will simply be playing the most logical moves. Predictable, but not exactly easy to deal with.

[Howedar]

Just because Thrawn is a great battlefield commander doesn't mean he'll be a great chess player. Patton was undoubtedly a better general than Kasparov would have been. Does that mean if Patton were still alive, he could whip Kasparov's ass in a chess match? Chess is an abstraction with strict rules, and it's a game with which Spock is familiar and Thrawn isn't.

Very true.

[Fleet Admiral Blair]

This is a little late, and largely irrelivent now, but...

Spock is smarter than Thrawn will ever be, but Thrawn is a stratigist.

Spock looses.

[Ghost Rider]

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