From Newsgroup: rec.games.chess.misc

"Chess has a tiny number of degrees of freedom compared to reality," he
wrote. "Only 64 squares, no fog of war, no tech tree, no terrain
differences, same starting pieces & positions every time and you can't
invent new pieces during the game." "All of those factors and more are
present in reality," said Musk.
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