It's like proof that too much chess makes your brain explode or something. Carlsen is a huge cry baby, Kasparov took everything Solzhenitsyn wrote down as a gospel truth, Fisher was like a white supremacist or something crazy. The chess players aren't alright.
It's engineer brain. You become incredibly skilled in one area, conflate your ability with a universal merit/intelligence, and then convince yourself that you now have expertise in disparate fields.
I'm not so sure. Chess is a consistently humbling game. Even at the very top level they're fighting for their W's, and they're only able to maintain that level of performance with constant practice. Not that the game's isn't full of pricks, but unless you're facing someone rated well below you it's difficult to feel smart.
It's very funny that they essentially are so similar, even with near identical "motive"
The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory asserted by Heribert Illig. First published in 1991, it hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII,[further explanation needed] to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history[1] to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire.
The [Fomenkoist] theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde".
but the whole "Everything cool and good ever developed was actually thanks to the super Russians" aspect of Fomenkoism is :chefs-kiss:
Kasparov was also a crybaby and tried to get some young dude (radjabov) out of a tournament because he got owned by him in one game. He also liked to slam pieces down and have a conniption if he made a mistake.
i'll always be suspicious of white people who are Really Into Chess. i played chess as a kid with my grandfather, got to highschool, tried to play chess club, and as soon as i started getting hit with "you're not even counter with the Scloflovian opening? playing against you is a waste of my time..." and everyone had the personality of Machiavellian anime villain i left the hobby forever.
Go is much more chill. Definitely some Weebs in it but its a game that takes like at minimum 90 mins for a full size game. I think the kinda patience that requires cuts down on Weirdness.
Nah, there's no credible allegation that Hans cheated in St Louie, and Magnus is a big baby.
First he (Magnus) ducks Nepo (choosing not to defend his title because it wasn't who he preferred is 100pct bush-league) then faces Hans (if he was concerned about Hans's prior online, not otb cheating (in casual games), surely this would've be expressed prior to playing, yes?) loses, gets taunted by Hans, and quits the round robin or w/e in nearly unprecedented fashion, ruining the tournament, subtweets him (Hans) like a total baby, doesn't voice any allegation, and let's Hans get pilloried w/ out addressing anything. Now this horseshit.
It's like proof that too much chess makes your brain explode or something. Carlsen is a huge cry baby, Kasparov took everything Solzhenitsyn wrote down as a gospel truth, Fisher was like a white supremacist or something crazy. The chess players aren't alright.
It's engineer brain. You become incredibly skilled in one area, conflate your ability with a universal merit/intelligence, and then convince yourself that you now have expertise in disparate fields.
I mean I guess that's professionalism brain broadly considered but fair point.
I'm not so sure. Chess is a consistently humbling game. Even at the very top level they're fighting for their W's, and they're only able to maintain that level of performance with constant practice. Not that the game's isn't full of pricks, but unless you're facing someone rated well below you it's difficult to feel smart.
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is this a stereotype? that sounds miserable. glad my group isn't like this
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Monopoly is a shitty board game with barely any decisions to make. You should get mad at anyone who wants to play it and play a better game instead.
not only did Kasparov take Solzhenitsyn like gospel, he also started a pro liberal democracy think tank
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the conspiracy theory is called the phantom time hypothesis and it's supposedly a large chunk of the middle ages fabricated including charlemagne
I am fairly certain that Kasparov is into New Chronology or Fomenkoism , not Phatnom Time Hypothesis. Similar but different crankery.
Lol I'm somehow glad there's multiple of these crackpot alt-chronologies, the world isn't sane enough for just one of these beauties.
It's very funny that they essentially are so similar, even with near identical "motive"
but the whole "Everything cool and good ever developed was actually thanks to the super Russians" aspect of Fomenkoism is :chefs-kiss:
new chronology
doing cold hard statistical analysis until you have proven that Rome is actually Moscow
Mikhail Botvinnik was very alright.
Kasparov was also a crybaby and tried to get some young dude (radjabov) out of a tournament because he got owned by him in one game. He also liked to slam pieces down and have a conniption if he made a mistake.
i'll always be suspicious of white people who are Really Into Chess. i played chess as a kid with my grandfather, got to highschool, tried to play chess club, and as soon as i started getting hit with "you're not even counter with the Scloflovian opening? playing against you is a waste of my time..." and everyone had the personality of Machiavellian anime villain i left the hobby forever.
Go is much more chill. Definitely some Weebs in it but its a game that takes like at minimum 90 mins for a full size game. I think the kinda patience that requires cuts down on Weirdness.
Agreed, League of Legends pros unironically seem like more mature people overall
I dont know about that
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Nah, there's no credible allegation that Hans cheated in St Louie, and Magnus is a big baby.
First he (Magnus) ducks Nepo (choosing not to defend his title because it wasn't who he preferred is 100pct bush-league) then faces Hans (if he was concerned about Hans's prior online, not otb cheating (in casual games), surely this would've be expressed prior to playing, yes?) loses, gets taunted by Hans, and quits the round robin or w/e in nearly unprecedented fashion, ruining the tournament, subtweets him (Hans) like a total baby, doesn't voice any allegation, and let's Hans get pilloried w/ out addressing anything. Now this horseshit.
His behavior speaks for it's self. Baby.