Wow, you've certainly led an interesting life. I may have even heard you sing. We honeymooned on waikiki beach in 1988. I wish I had known about the chess pavilion. Perhaps it was just as well though, my bride would have killed me. :)
As his guru I keep telling him : open your K/Q pawns, take COMMAND of the center. CARPE DEUM, sieze the day, get in the enemy's face, ...
Absolutely. When I played all the time in college, I instituted a patsy development program. But even when it was time to throw a game, I had to have my fun. Many times I would open h3 just to watch them squirm to figure out my diabolical plan, instead of noticing the insult. LOL! Those were the days.
Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, the guy I play e-chess with is a masochist. Walter, the german, would beat him every time but let him win 1 in 20 games. Howard has a NEED to be beaten, deep seated guilt complex combined with shepherd archetype. He has this idea that you can go to WAR(in chess) and not lose a single man. Typical naive democrat. I should feel guilty whacking him 9 out of 10 games but true FRers should ALWAYS whack pelosi demonrats wherever they may be found.
The one guy who could STOMP me every time was a navy cryptographer, supremely logical guy who spent 6 months learning chess. Yes, your bride would have been very unhappy w/you if you'd found CHESS CENTRAL on waikiki beach. It's almost like a narcotic, the regulars there play all day until after sunset, having nothing much else to do.
There was this young black kid, always played a "right brain" game(child artist)whereas chess is a "left brain" game(computer engineer), like sudoku. Blacks are generally right-brain strong but left-brain weak, like the lobster with one big claw, one little claw. Thus he was exercising his left brain/little claw by playing chess.
It was pathetic to watch, he'd consistently lose and finally I told him about left brains vs right brains and how to focus his mechanical-organic "computer". But it was an uphill struggle for him. Same with almost all blacks, the enemy isn't whitey/houlis, it's that weak LEFT brain...
Not to be racist(there were GOOD black players there too)but one could see the white/black difference. It comes down to mechanical left brain abilities. Whites(and japanese) tinker with cars, computers, robots, THINGS in high school; blacks play basketball. Same thing w/the native hawaiians.
Ah well, we architects are both artists AND engineers, natural chess players; but we play with BIGGER THINGS than chess men on an 8x8 board. What's your profession?