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For questions about "The Thing", a sci-fi horror film directed by John Carpenter based on the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, about a team of scientists in the Antarctic who discover a shape-shifting alien

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Did the Chess Wizard from The Thing actually cheat?

The scene appears to include positions from two different games. Macready is being pulverised in both, but the subsequent moves make no sense at all. Here is the position displayed after 12 seconds. …
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