Comment by trod123

I'm going to assume that your question is genuine and sincere, and not meant sarcastically.

If you read the following books by established experts, you should be able to rationally answer the question for yourself as to the why and the how. The subject matter involves torture for thought reform, real not fantasy. This differs from SERE training which is geared towards resisting information extraction.

China by their own words (internal leaked documents), seeks the destruction of the national will, of their enemies. This involves an identity based approach to torture/thought reform, which falls under the military strategy, Divide and Conquer. Digital attacks are cost effective when weighed against other options.

Anything you believe, love, or common experiences that you share with other people is fair game for inducement and then destructive interference to promote nihilism, while segmenting individuals into two groups, disassociative responses (apathetic/non-response), and psychotic break responses.

The items targeted include chess, along with many other things. Inducement of struggle sessions to break people.

If you spend the time to review the material I mentioned, you'll likely find out that a core belief of yours is untrue, that belief being that something like this is fantasy and impossible. This has a way of breaking the weak-willed, often in a psychological reversal/delusion.

I hope you are a strong person, we need more rational people if we are to survive as a species.

Robert Lifton (Thought Reform and The Psychology of Totalism) Joost Meerloo (Rape of the Mind) Robert Cialdini (Influence) USMC Press (Political Warfare)(Free ebook at their website)