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The pursuit of perfection

Years ago I was involved in art photography, taking lots of pictures and trying to be the best. I begun reading about the best photographers in the 20 century, Ansel Adams, Weston and many others who became my ideal. The way they did see the photo through the viewfinder, and specially the printing techniques they used just obsessed me. They were so perfect!!! And I tryed to be them instead of being myself. When I understod it will never happen, I gave up photography.

I came back to chess after many very long years of not playing, went into the net searching for sites where to play until Chess.com popped up to my eyes, became a member and started to play again.When I was 14 I used to play a lot, scholar chess, D category national tournaments and regular players. untill I played some simultaneous games against some of the top argentinian GM  at that time: Najdorf, Ruben Shocron, Rosseto and others.. I realized that I am not as good as I thought so some years later I stopped to play for more than 45 years until Chess.com

At my age,I need to play because I love the game, and the effect it has on my brains, I don't want to stop. What I must stop is the obsession for The pursuit of perfection. I am ageing, but not getting old. I just want to enjoy and get the best of the game, loosing or winning, fighting for a good game but not to be GM.

I WILL NOT GIVE UP, I WILL CHALLENGE AND BE CHALLENGED

Comments


  • 13 months ago

    SuperCourgette

    Yoshi, how impressive, you met such great players! And your fighting spirit makes me happy :)

    TonyMooney: Veterans are not simply ignored in the chess world.

    I agree, there is chessKid.com and no chessveteran.com but:

    There is a world championship for Veterans. And in some tournaments, there is a special prize for veterans.

  • 13 months ago

    TonyMooney

    Hi Yoshi. I wonder if there is a market for a Veteran's Group on C.com? Chess seems to be one of the games which do not recognise veterans. Squash for instance has veterans over 45. Would a 50+ group be of interest?

    It would fit with your philosphy. Older people also have more time, so it might be possible to arrange longer live games during the day so overcoming time differences. It would be possible to add TB and matches to keep up interest.

    But its main purpose would be to get older people playing and believing that age is not a barrier to improvement.

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