Elon Musk is making headlines after tweeting that the game of chess is "too simple to be useful in real life." After taking a cheap shot  at chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, Musk then stated that chess has "no fog of war" and Polytopia - an online map-control strategy game - "addresses these limitations."

I did as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.

Polytopia addresses these limitations.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 24, 2022

The controversial tweet has chess fanatics and players up in arms.

When Elon Musk says that chess, the 1,500-year-old game that continues to baffle the world's best minds and computers alike, is too simple for him, the real revelation is that Elon Musk is too simple for chess.

— Olimpiu Di Luppi (@olimpiuurcan) October 24, 2022

*setting up a fog machine on my side of the chess board* i challenge you, mr. musk, to a game… https://t.co/LpZKHuYo26

— Scrying in Public (@Squidomatic) October 25, 2022

Anyone who thinks Elon is a genius is dumber than him. https://t.co/y7p2GoPcdp

— Garrett in Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions (@LeopardGarrett) October 25, 2022

tell me you suck at chess without telling me you suck at chess https://t.co/BFrWm0h6mo

— Speculator (@TheSpeculator0) October 25, 2022

But let's not forget that in June of this year, Elon tweeted this gem basically defending the game of chess, and trolling electronic gamers.

If chess was released as a video game pic.twitter.com/8SuK8Mg7yT

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2022

So which is it? Is this all just one massive troll job? Or does Musk truly believe that he's smarter than a game which dates back to the sixth century? It seems to be a case of hubris getting the better of someone who clearly knows he's in the wrong.