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I think I caused the trauma in my case. I wasn't in the chess club, but I had AP European History with basically everyone in the chess club and I remember the president of said club getting hella pissed at me when I beat him while playing a game in class, because he said:
"I can't figure out what your next move is because you fucking suck at chess!"
This might make me sound like a chess elitist, but it can't have been much of a chess club if they couldn't beat you because they "can't figure out what your next move is."
I think they were so focused on established strategies, that they weren't thinking like someone who doesn't know them. It's like being a high ranked player in CS with a bunch of low rank people. You're doing stuff typical of high level play, and they aren't so it throws you off. Like, someone being in a position that is commonly thought to be a bad play can suddenly become good again if your opponent is treating it as being empty all the time and you catch them off-guard.