WarGames (11/11) Movie CLIP - The Only Winning Move (1983) HD

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Why Hacker News recommends it

Used as a joke or shorthand quote, 'the only winning move is not to play', in unrelated threads.

What it is

Clip from the 1983 film WarGames in which the computer Joshua concludes that global thermonuclear war has no winner and proposes a game of chess instead.

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