Elon Musk spot in this throwback pic of his high school chess team- NB Inspire

 Elon Musk spot in this throwback pic of his high school chess team- NB Inspire

There was a time Elon Musk used to play chess. Today, the richest man in the world prefers the Battle of Polytopia, a strategy video game played on a randomly-generated map.

Elon Musk discussed the drawbacks of chess vs the advantage of Polytopia when an old photograph of him as part of a chess team surfaced on Twitter. The black and white photography shows a young Musk posing with his teammates part of high school chess team.

"Do you still play chess?" the Twitter user who shared the picture on the microblogging platform asked Musk.

In response, the  Tesla chief listed out the reason he longer plays chess. " Only 64 squares, no fog of war, no tech tree, only a few different pieces, no random spawn. Chess is a simple game. I prefer Polytopia, " he wrote.

In march, he tweeted: Chess is a simple game. Understandable when all we had to play with were squirrels and rocks, but no we have computers."

Polytopia is way better imo, if you like strategy games," he added.

Polytopia is a turn-based strategy game developed by Swedish gaming company Midjiwan AB. The aim of the game is to control as much territory as possible on a randomly generated map and to develop an empire by beating opponents.