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People say he's a great chess player. As true as that might be, i think i can school him at chess.
People say he's a great chess player. As true as that might be, i think i can school him in chess.
People say he's a great chess player. As true as that might be, i think i can school him in a game of chess.
What preposition is the most appropriate to use there? I looked up the idiom "school somebody", and in the examples the site had, they'd used in.
Either preposition will work. The two differ only subtly, and the difference does not really change the meaning. In fact, it is difficult to come up with a way to differentiate the meanings at all when used in the context of chess.
