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Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi this isn't

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=569

Strip by: Conor

Pig: I have trouble opening conversations with pretty girls.
Rat: Buy a book on openings and memorize them.
Pig: What kind of openings?
Rat: I don't know... just well-known openings.
{Pig is at a bar and talking to a human woman.}
Pig: 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2 Nf6 3. Kf3 Bc5 4. Kg3 Nxe4

The author writes:

Comments: In honour (?) of the currently-ongoing (as I submit this) World Chess Championship. If Pig is really interested in serious opening study... well, he probably shouldn't have picked Winning with the Bongcloud.

Original Pearls before Swine strip: 2009-08-20. Pig's chess moves taken from "Pedal to the Metal: The Accelerated and Hyper-Accelerated Bongclouds", Winning with the Bongcloud, Andrew Fabbro, pg. 23-24.