You're probably right - Q is probably thinking in the context of chess.

Also, take it from Trump himself. He said, "how can I describe leaders better than the word, 'stupid?' I used to say 'grossly incompetent,' but 'stupid' is stronger, isn't it?"

I learned that business vocabulary is quite different from bureaucrat/academia vocabulary because of the audience the different sectors are trying to reach. You want simple words in business. "Obama stupid" can be understood by a 70 year old farmer in rural China who knows almost no English.