Par le jeu

Il est parfois plus facile d’apprendre les langues par le jeu que scolairement //
Sometimes it is easier to learn foreign languages by playing games than scholastically

What can I say. He seems to have chosen a wrong type of game to play if his aim was to learn a new language.

Also, he is losing, it seems.

In his defense I must say that the guy he is playing against is Emanuel Lasker, as (at least partially incorrectly) described by conman Ostap Bender in The Twelve Chairs.

«Вы знаете, Ласкер дошел до пошлых вещей, с ним стало невозможно играть. Он обкуривает своих противников сигарами. И нарочно курит дешевые, чтобы дым противней был.»

“You know, Lasker came to such vulgar things that it became impossible to play with him. He blows cigar smoke all over his opponent. And he purposedly chooses cheap cigars, so that the smoke would be nastier.”

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