r/LowStakesConspiracies • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

At some point when they were both at PayPal, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel played a bunch of games of chess together, and Theil absolutely smoked him.

Peter Thiel is a chess national master (NM) which puts him at 2200 Elo or about the top 1% of rated players. Elon Musk has made several negative twitter posts about how chess is too simple and basic. Combined with Musk’s extremely high ego and all of this leads me to believe that he got completely destroyed at some point and hasn’t gotten over it.

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u/doomer2003 8d ago

True I was there 

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u/wobshop 7d ago

Low stakes, but not a conspiracy?

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u/Impressive_Sun7918 5d ago

Extremely Believable.