Author: Vicente Fernández Herrasti
Date: 13:11:24 12/10/98
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On December 10, 1998 at 15:01:07, Ralph E. Carter wrote: >On December 10, 1998 at 11:19:03, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>The subject why women isn´t interested in computerchess fascinate me. The >>question for my wife for example, isn´t why she is not interested but why on >>earth I am. >> >>If one woman is reading this lines it would be interesting to have a comment. In >>this way we could examine if there is one woman reading this all over the world. >>I am not sure. >> >>Georg > >I always preferred smart women. Some were smarter than I. >Some were probably aggressive enough, but it was of a different kind. > >When faced with the kind of problems that occur in chess, men >can experience a seizure-like gripping of the problem with their >minds, as if their minds were a mechanical tool, like a vise grip. >(This is what it feels like to me.) I know other men can do this, >I feel it over the board. > >I've seen women attend to a chess problem for a minute or two. >In my personal experience, I've never seen the "vise grip effect" >seize a woman into total focus on a chess problem, as if her life or ego >depended upon the solution. > >We know it can happen. But it seems more rare. > > >Men and women are incomplete. >The complete human organism is a male plus a female. > >The two hemispheres of the brain are complementary. >Although one may be specialized for a given task, both are required >for maximum performance. > >In the same way, for a chess player to be his best, I think he should >be able to activate and utilize both the "masculine principle" and the >"feminine principle". That is, both the fanatical insistence upon >exact solution, plus methods like "talk around", evasion, avoidance, etc. I just called out my wife and asked: "Honey, why on earth don't you give a damn for computer chess?" And she answered: "Because it is dangerous; people that play chess forget about everything else, about everybody else. It is a kind of alcohol that excludes the world itself. Combine it with computers and then you got a post-modern Crusoe's Island with no salvages and no ships passing by. Sometimes I think that chess itself will reign someday, along with two or three cockroaches, no humanity around. And you chess addicts would be happy for it".
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