This was "Unwrapped 1.0" as of just a few days ago.
It's much better now, isn't it?
Posted on 09/23/2016 7:33:59 PM PDT by brucedickinson
Her actual performance in the chess world shows these to be puff pieces with very little attention paid to empirical fact. Mutesi has no doubt achieved something as a young Ugandan girl living in poverty, to capture the attention of the world, but that something she accomplished is not being good at chess.
She achieved her highest chess rating in 2012, a 1686, as listed by FIDE. As of September 2016, her rating has dropped to 1622. FIDE lists that from the 40th Olympiad in 2012, to April 2016, she played a grand total of 39 matches and never scored above a 1686 rating.
Her rating has been in a near-linear decline since she began playing.
Now, compare Mutesi’s track record with that of Judit Polgar of Hungary, who is considered to be the best female chess player of all
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As far as “black” movies go, I loved the ray Charles movie and the Tina Story movie - “What’s Love Got to do With it?” Both amazing people with very interesting lives. You don’t need to make things up just because you want them to be true.
The Left needs a black chess superstar. So... poof! Here’s one! Only problem is... she ain’t...
Tina Turner
He was also certifiably nuts, but an interesting fellow in some ways.
I haven’t read this book but I remembered the title:
“Whitey on the Moon” by Paul Kersey (yeah, I get it)
Amazon has it.
Judit Polgar very seldom plays women’s matches. She competes with the big boys. She also has two chess-playing sisters, one an American GM and the other an IM (not WGM and WIM). My husband pretty much has a crush on the three of them.
No clue what post #12 is supposed to mean.
Think I'll have a look...
“American” seems to be linked to “African-American” in the searches.
You can try substituting “U.S.” for “American” and you will get more representative results.
Try this with “inventors”, “scientists”, and “mathematicians.” Even if you put in “U.S” you get a disproportionate number of black people.
But Google is trying so hard, bless their hearts.
I am with you 100%. Anything that teaches kids to think hard is a huge plus in my mind - whatever their ethnicity or gender.
Brooklyn Castles, for example, is an inspiring movie.
Try this: “white american couple” it’s even more fascinating...
This was "Unwrapped 1.0" as of just a few days ago.
It's much better now, isn't it?
its all they have to exploit a greatly exaggerated story around.
The girl is from Uganda. I can see the point of making such a movie. Everything isn’t purely racist. Their money, their movie. Don’t like it, start your own film company and make your own movie.
welcome to Free Republic. sorta.
Are you kidding? I saw a little about this movie and thought for sure they were scientists. Just card punchers? Darn.
As a black woman with a PhD, I look for ‘hidden history’ about women in science, but alas, apparently this ain’t it, huh?
There are some people with certain obsessions.
Makes FR look bad.
Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it ought to be HONESTLY sought and acquired. She is nowhere near the level, objectively, being claimed for her chess play. That does not mean her life story is not quite inspiring and impressive.
They could make a perfectly inspirational movie about her actual accomplishments in coming from such a difficult background to learn the self-discipline and mental rigor to play credibly in chess tournaments. What she has actually done is worthy of much credit.
However, when there are 91,050 active chess players ranked above her, including 5,421 players of the female persuasion, it is simply DISHONEST for the movie makers to pretend that she is some kind of prodigy setting the chess world on fire.... or that (as one hallucinating journalist wrote) “over time she reveals the makings of another Bobby Fischer”..... The movie makers and churnalists are creating a fantasy figure who does not exist, yet they pretend that this is the “real, true story”....
We don’t have to make our own movie(s) to criticize the inaccuracy and dishonesty in movies that are made by others.
Honesty and accuracy are valuable in themselves, qualities to be defended and indeed demanded.
correct link for the thread:
When I was a teenager I did some chess tournaments. My rating sucked because I was a risky and undisciplined player, but I collected a whole bunch of wins against rated-and-qualified masters in the process.
Turns out that a lot of chess “masters” aren’t really masters, but rather just very well-versed in standard, orthodox play.
That’s a good point. I once read an article about a research study on how the human mind works when dealing with things that follow predictable patterns over time. They had 50 top chess players play games against 50 beginners, and the top players won every game. They then sat all the players down at chess boards with pieces arranged in a random fashion that didn’t come from a normal game in progress, and the top players lost quite a few games.
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