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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
Would you say that I have created an obstacle to understanding?
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the quote by august to which you answered here seems to point at the same direction like what I try to say. It is very possible that yoiu indeed create obstacles to understanding - by yourself standing in your own way in the way I tried to explain above.
consider our recent 5 moves chess match. that terrible 2nd move of yours, and you said something like that you wanted to try something different from the standard openings. As if you really have a valid, terrain-covering impression of the wide range of chess openings!
By denying to use the established knowledge about openings, you denied yourself the opportunity to use their good to your advantage. In a way here you stood in your own way indeed, because you favoured your own idea about how openings could be played over the needs of the situation (position on the board) and the long-known, experience-soaking, well verified basics and principles of elemental theory. And this, becasue you wanted to try soemthing. See my reply back there, about how to learn juggling: many balls only later, few balls first.
The more i think about you and this thread, the more I am convinced that you are not dealing with a challenge to your intellect, but your personality. No, not in the meaning of a disorder, but a feature of being a stubborn man who finds it hard to change his attitude and long held convictions. Long-held convictions - this I say from a psychologist's perspective - are not so much a question of intellect or arguments and discussing them and convincing somebody, but they are more often an issue of
attitudes and
habits.
If not listening to me, listen at least to August and Takeda. I think both have a valid points.