checkers, intelectually demanding

Billmon:

"This is all Game Theory 101, and my guess is that the neocons understand the dynamic perfectly well -- and in fact are now counting on it. But I'm not entirely sure even the saner members of the regime, like Secretary Supertanker, recognize the bind they are now in. I'm reasonably sure the vast majority of the American people don't. And the corporate media? Well, given that most of them find the game of checkers intellectually overdemanding, it's a bit much to expect them to grasp the finer points of the real life version of Risk."