In High School I used to play multiple people simultaneously and won inter-school chess tournaments. My math teacher was in army where he was a grandmaster. I beat him only once in 3 years. Played a bunch of chess variants after college such as cross chess, blitz chess. drinking chess (pawns were shot glasses, bishops and knights were 4 oz double shot glasses, etc) and when you captured you needed to drink liquid in piece.
Right now I am not in shape to wrestle an alligator or play 400 games of chess but I'd choose chess.
Incentive to beating alligator could be you got to eat him.