10 Board Games That Lead To Real-Life Violence

3. Horrific Things That Happen After Chess Games

Chess is widely regarded as a game of intellectuals and master strategists. Turns out it’s also a game of cannibals and antarctic psychopaths. This list was SOMETHING to put together, and that’s no mistake. Despite its aura as a game for higher minds, if a game’s been around for as long as Chess, then surely someone’s been killed over it, and indeed yes, we can name two high profile, and utterly WEIRD cases. The first is from 2014, when two men came to blows over a game of chess in Dublin, with a man called Tom O’Gorman being killed by his lodger Saverio Bellante, who then cut open his chest and tried to eat his heart, but ended up just eating a bit of his lung, which is not… that’s a secret rule in chess if it is a rule. Almost as crazy is an event from the 1950s where soviet researchers were playing chess at an Antarctic research station. You know that bit from the thing where Macready kills the computer with a drink because she’s a “cheating b***h,” well this is like that, except instead of a drink it’s an axe, with one researching killing and chopping up a colleague after a game of chess went sour. I mean, prolonged isolation and heart-stopping cold will do that to the human mind. This isn’t a cheerful list… s-sorry.