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Chicken ChroniclesEP. 06

The Algorithmic Swing

The Crabbies try to optimize Chester Cluck's golf swing with laser grids and data science. The results are hilariously destructive.

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Chester surrounded by BB's holographic swing analysis grids
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CategoryChicken Chronicles
PublishedFeb 27, 2026
Read time1 min
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  • Chickens
  • Golf

Previously on Chicken Chronicles... The Crabbies arrived. Chester accepted them. He did not, however, accept their help with his short game.

Optimizing the Slice

"Pause!" buzzed BB, the little yellow bumblebee-bot. It scurried onto the tee box holding a protractor the size of a pizza.

"I'm in my backswing, BB," I gritted out through my beak.

"Your hip rotation is 12% suboptimal," BB chirped. "Adjust vector 3 degrees North-North-West. Initiating guidance protocol."

Suddenly, laser grids appeared on the grass. Peeches (the security peach-bot) started measuring wind speed with a tiny antenna. Jackee (the building-bot) began constructing a 'stance stabilization platform' around my ankles.

"Swing now!" BB commanded.

I swung. Or tried to. Locked in the grid, I spun like a top and whacked the ball... directly backward into the clubhouse window.

"Interesting," BB clicked, recording the crash. "We need more data."
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All episodes 35
  1. The Great Egg Heist: A Henrietta Adventure
  2. Chester's Great Leap
  3. The Student
  4. The Day Chester Cluck Lost His Voice
  5. The First Lesson
  6. The Manila Delegation
  7. The Manila Visitor
  8. The First Lesson
  9. The Crabbie Invasion
  10. The Rooster from Manila
  11. The Algorithmic Swing
  12. Chester's Social Media Swing
  13. The Map That Shouldn't Exist
  14. The Manila Detour
  15. The Bell Tower at Dawn
  16. The Package That Wasn't Mine
  17. Episode 12: What Peping Knows
  18. Episode 13: The Tape Keeps Running
  19. Episode 14: The Note on the Door
  20. Episode 14: Calle Crisologo
  21. Episode 15: What the Pension Keeper Knew
  22. Episode 16: What Chester Knew at the Frangipani Tree
  23. Episode 17: Three Chairs, Two Settings
  24. Episode 18: The Other Hand
  25. Episode 19: Grey Ink
  26. Chicken Chronicles Episode 20: The Second Page
  27. Chicken Chronicles Episode 21: The Number Rings Through
  28. Episode 22: The Bookbinder's Second Floor
  29. Episode 23: After Dapitan
  30. Episode 24: What the Grey Ink Said
  31. Episode 25: E, In Person
  32. Episode 26: The Call to Cabanatuan
  33. Episode 27: Tita Puring's House
  34. The Ballad of Stubie Cluck: Golf's Most Cursed Putter
  35. Chester Cluck's Midnight Craving Crisis
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