Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:39:28 06/06/98
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On June 06, 1998 at 15:50:08, Danniel Corbit wrote: >On June 05, 1998 at 18:30:35, Thorsten Czub wrote: >[snip] >>>I remember an studen in my college that was at >>>the dsame time the best of us playing chess but he was for uncapable to >>>solve just the simplest of differential e >> >>?!?! !! :-)) >I think he meant differential equation. That would be a rather silly >measure of intelligence if the GM in question had never taken the class. > I am a math geek myself, and yet I hold to what Will Rogers said: >"Everybody's ignorant. Only in different areas."' >Knowing how to solve ODE's won't make you a better chess player. Nor >does it mean that you are smarter than someone who does not know how if >you can solve it. > >There are less than 600 persons in the world with an ELO of over 2500. >If these persons cannot make an acceptable living with such incredible >excellence, that would be a sad thing. The guy had taken the class and failed. He failed in all but in chess. And I was telling that just as a part of a longer thread that was interrupted. It was not an speculation about intelligence, maths, chess or anything of the sort, so your eomments are irrelevant. I would not dare to comment anything about a thread that has been obviously interrupmted even in the middle of a word. Now I tell you: It was just an example to help people that tends to see in GM something like great minds that deserves glory and money. Well, not anymore that good soccer players or anything else, but less, because his game is not so interesting to people and that is a fact of the business. Ches is just a craft and not the most important of the earth. Chess is just a game, like checkers or othello or umping the rope, we tend to forget that. I can weep a little if a great writer, musiciasn, jazz saxofonist, mathematician or a scientist does not get what he deserves, but a chess player...
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