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Basic Trope: The Ditz has one thing they are better at than anyone else.
- Straight: Alice is clueless most of the time, but when it comes to chess matches, she never loses.
- Exaggerated: Alice is the Chess Champion of the Universe, but can't work out how to open a soda can.
- Alice can not only beat anyone at chess, she can talk through technique while doing it.
- Justified Alice's only hobby is chess, and she's had a lot of practice.
- Alice's superhuman intelligence only kicks in when she's in a chess game.
- Inverted: Ditzy Genius
- Subverted: ???
- Doubly Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice can beat an Eldritch Abomination in a chess game in 10 minutes flat, but she doesn't even know what any of the pieces are called.
- Deconstructed: Because of her Crippling Overspecialization, Alice is excluded from the team.
- Reconstructed: However, Alice teaches the other team members how to play chess.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice is smart at everything, but especially excels at chess.
- Enforced: "We have to show that Alice isn't *completely* stupid. Let's give her a superhuman knowledge of chess!"
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Alice. I didn't expect *you* to be so good at chess!"
- Invoked: Bob makes a deal with Emperor Evulz: if he can beat Alice in a chess match, him and the other heroes will leave him alone.
- Defied: Alice is well-rounded with all board games. She can also beat anyone at checkers, backgammon etc.
- Discussed: "I'm good at chess." "Anything else?" "Not at all."
- Conversed: "Alice is a really stupid character." "You haven't seen an episode where she plays chess, have you?"