Leo Gura

I was thinking about serious issues since my early teens and working hard to build my life. If you only start that at 21 you're fucked. By 21 you should already have 1/3rd of your life built.

It's an advanced issue. But basically A=A cannot be defeated. Paradox has to take place in more tricky and higher-order ways. Almost certainly not. And even if he did, he would be hated, ineffective, and booted.

Nope, nope, nope.

"The truth is chess is no good any more." -- Bobby Fischer As in life, so in chess, no one wants the truth.

I never said nor even implied that.

@integral You talking to me? I have no idea about that game. But it's kinda cringe that two of the best players in the world are all confused just because there's one weird opening. Shows how rotten classical chess is.

That's your gripe? I thought it was obvious it was AI.

Very few malls have enough volume and quality to be great. What's better is street game. But this requires certain special street locations like NYC, Miami, LA, Vegas Strip, Austin 6th Street. Austin 6th Street has some wild street game Thurs-Sat. Lots of young chicks in their early 20s. Austin is probably your best bet. Funny enough, my first chick was from an Austin mall. Malls can work if you find a very high volume mall. In Vegas you can literally game outside of nightclubs without ever going inside. No cover, no ID required. You can just show up 2am-4am when all the girls are leaving the club. The Vegas Strip has huge volume and lots of opportunities. Free and no ID. Street game in NYC is very good from what I hear. But NYC is so expensive to live. Miami street and beach game is very appealing.

@Thought Art I get it. AI is annoying.

No way. I hate rapid thinking. I like slow and methodical. Intelligence requires time to unfold, not artificial human limits.

That's true of any chemical. It's all about the right balance.

Caveman logic.

Cause was psychedelics interacting with a chronic health condition.

Well, actually, that part I think is stupid. That's a terribly egoic way to play a game. It should be played for the creative intelligence and beauty, not to dunk on people.

BS??

"The truth is chess is no good any more." -- Bobby Fischer He is the only one with the lucidity and balls to say it.

Tomb of the Space Kangaroo.

That's way too late. By that time their whole life will be spoiled.

I have experienced brain damage, thanks to my health chronic problems. But I'm still smarter than 98% of public intellectuals.

Listen to the master:

Of course I know why they do it. That's the thing I dislike. It's an arms race to memorize moves. This ruins the spirit of chess. Which is why Bobby Fischer agrees with me and invented Fischer Random. Fischer was a chess purist.

@AtmanIsBrahman Why would a true chess player want to memorize anything? Memory is an inferior form of intellect. I should be able to give you chess with brand new pieces and you should be able to play it. That is intelligence. If you need to run to a book to memorize a bunch of moves that is so lame that it ruins the game. Classical chess was great 150 years ago. Before group-think killed it.

That's deep inner game. Owen was always king of inner game. Inner game is for advanced pickup. Great stuff. This is what I loved Owen for.

Fischer Random is PURE chess. Classic chess is just group-think.

What if black always starts with 1 random pawn advanced forward by 1 square? This would have the added advantage of making opening theory less robotic