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?
Amen. I sure hope America wakes up and realizes what she did in putting these unpatriotic, anti-American leftists in power. I can't believe these liberals voting unanimously to confirm General Petraeus, and their next act is to vote against everything he told them he intended to do. I can't wait to see what happens when the actual funding bill comes up. I just DARE them to back Murtha or cut it outright. Suicide.
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?
I'm a lawyer. Most of my career has been in corporate legal departments handling contracts and miscellaneous business law issues. Drafting contracts is sort of like chess. You have to arrange all the words to work together to achieve your goal. Sacrifices must be made during negotiations, etc., etc. I just know that the same thing that attracted me to chess also attracted me to the law.