Crazy Snooker

Skybird · 11-28-18, 02:46 PM

Thanks for the cheers, but you know the decline in my chess playing was not due to aging, but carelessness or easymindedness, and its not as if I were playing at GM level anyway, certainly not. I just had a healthy talent, but I spoiled it and did not care for it consequently enough - until it was too late. Learning stuff with 20 is still easy. With 30 its not as easy anymore, with 40 it becomes difficult and with 50 its almost hopeless.

I was best in correspondence chess anyway.

At least I learned other good stuff, and quite professionally. Meditation. Swords and martial arts. Some archery. Fighting. That opened me some doors, and also helped me to form a much stronger self reliance than I originally had when I was young. There would not have been enough time to spend more time on chess, while studying atuniversity (or going to school before that), and running the training and education program that I was running five days a week for years, and parts of it every day. Judging by the practical outcomes in my life, the way I moved probably was the better way. And by now I can live in pretty much the way I want to live, financially independent as long as the financial system holds together, being master of most of my time and spending it like I want: no boss telling me anything. So truth must be that my regret about chess is sentimental only, but not realistic.

Congrats to Carlsen, but the tournament has shown the problem chess has run into: the theoretic part is almost analysed to death, especially endgames and even more openings. Computers helped a lot in that. Maybe it now indeed makes sense to go back to ideas by Fisher and others, to randomly alter the starting positions of the figures behind the pawns to bypass opening theory completely and force players to actually play, instead of having them sitting all night long in the lab and preparing theoretical variations in a bid to find a hole in the prepared variations of their opponents. Or rewarding points for acchieving predefined goals like having their king moved beyond the 4th/5th column: ideas to make players going for greater risks and thus spicing up the match.

11-28-18, 02:46 PM	#15
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,538 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the cheers, but you know the decline in my chess playing was not due to aging, but carelessness or easymindedness, and its not as if I were playing at GM level anyway, certainly not. I just had a healthy talent, but I spoiled it and did not care for it consequently enough - until it was too late. Learning stuff with 20 is still easy. With 30 its not as easy anymore, with 40 it becomes difficult and with 50 its almost hopeless. I was best in correspondence chess anyway. At least I learned other good stuff, and quite professionally. Meditation. Swords and martial arts. Some archery. Fighting. That opened me some doors, and also helped me to form a much stronger self reliance than I originally had when I was young. There would not have been enough time to spend more time on chess, while studying atuniversity (or going to school before that), and running the training and education program that I was running five days a week for years, and parts of it every day. Judging by the practical outcomes in my life, the way I moved probably was the better way. And by now I can live in pretty much the way I want to live, financially independent as long as the financial system holds together, being master of most of my time and spending it like I want: no boss telling me anything. So truth must be that my regret about chess is sentimental only, but not realistic. Congrats to Carlsen, but the tournament has shown the problem chess has run into: the theoretic part is almost analysed to death, especially endgames and even more openings. Computers helped a lot in that. Maybe it now indeed makes sense to go back to ideas by Fisher and others, to randomly alter the starting positions of the figures behind the pawns to bypass opening theory completely and force players to actually play, instead of having them sitting all night long in the lab and preparing theoretical variations in a bid to find a hole in the prepared variations of their opponents. Or rewarding points for acchieving predefined goals like having their king moved beyond the 4th/5th column: ideas to make players going for greater risks and thus spicing up the match. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.