ElPais.com published an article titled “La jugada mágica de Bogolybov” or “The magical play of Bogoljubov” in 2017. In the article, grandmasters Ludwig Rellstab and Efim Bogoljubov competed in a chess match in 1940. Leontxo Garca, the host of an El Pais chess video series, utilized a chessboard diagram to re-enact the match in the video linked to the story. Garca characterized a certain move by Bogoljubov as “maravillosa” or “amazing” at one point in the film. People began to use the screenshot of that exact moment as a meme quite quickly.
The reaction graphic is frequently used to depict a real (or mocking) reaction to a well-executed (or badly performed) strategy. The phrase is frequently used as a caption for a photograph of a guy gesturing towards a checkerboard diagram. Some of them are even better than Bogoljubov’s move!
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Originally published on the boredpanda