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=> I Hate Chess....

I Hate Chess....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, January 4 2014, 14:25:12 (UTC)
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...but then I hate almost all games. The only game of chance I am interested in is Life itself...all the rest seem to me the result of massive boredom...

But of all them I hate chess the most...probably because it was always represented as a "thinking person's game"....and was played avidly and as a sign of superior intelligence by almost everyone in my family.

When computers first started "playing" chess, and losing, I was even more convinced that intelligence had nothing to do with it...and when they started winning, against humans, I was certain. If a machine can do it, it ain't intelligence, at least not human intelligence...and whatever kind of "intelligence" it takes to play chess also ain't human...it was ALWAYS artificial intelligence....

There are, by now after centuries of playing the game, only so many "moves" and combinations and strategic maneuvers...they may be in the millions, but they are a limited number nonetheless....it all comes down to remembering which one you should apply when....if your opponent makes a "Z" move, you should counter with a "Y" move...or sometimes an "X" move...and then sometimes a "B" move because that might trick your opponent into making a "C" move, in which case you've got him because then you make your "F" move.....boring.

You have to memorize all the moves and combinations and "tricks" and "traps" and then it's simply a matter of applying the right one at the right moment...turns out that all you need is an ability to memorize....just like the guys who "count" cards in Blackjack etc.

Every move that can ever be made on a chess board has been made, centuries ago....the "crisis" which can arise has arisen ten million times before....you either "remember" the right counter-move, or you don't...or you use the wrong one....what's the big deal?

No wonder the greatest chess champions all face backwards...they've devoted their lives to memorizing zillions of combinations and possibilities, but MEMORIZING...not "thinking".....and memorizing moves, like memorizing your textbook and then spitting back, either at the gaming board, or on an exam is not THINKING...so don't tell me chess is a thinking person's game, anymore than a diploma came as a result of heavy and deep thinking...they're the same fraud.



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