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by acomjean 1713 days ago
We used to call it when people stand around your chess board talking about you game “kibitzers”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibitzer

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TIL Where chibitz comes from in Romanian. To us it's the annoying people that comment on the game (cards, football or whatever it is) and usually hope it goes badly for the target of their comments.
Same in Hungarian