Am I a chess master?!

I'm watching a documentary on the tube right now called "The Universe" and they're saying that there might be an infinite number of parallel universes where our physical laws don't apply. However that's just one theory. Another theory, called the inflationary universe theory, states that the universe is infinite. Thus an infinite number of copies of everyone on earth, (and everthing else, of course) must exist. If it could have happened on earth, it HAS happened somewhere in another part of the universe. So I guess we can all start calling ourseves chess masters. LOL.

Well, if you want to go through all that justification, you might as well just say that you're god

So can the chessmaster you in the alternate universe call himself a "woodshover" ?

 Sorry, that wouldn't work. If it's not physicly possible with you on earth, it wouldn't be happeng to you in another universe.

More than that, there's a universe where GM Woodshover is World Champion and doesn't have time to post nonsense on chess websites.

There's also a universe where (nearly) everything is the same as ours except chess is only ever played with pieces made out of cheese.  Sadly in this universe woodshover is allergic to cheese -- not the kind of allergic you're thinking of, if he ever so much as smells cheese on someone's breath it causes a rainstorm of fudge to happen somewhere on earth (even the underground parts).  In this universe such "allergies" are common and such people identified and quarantined at birth, for even in such universes these people are considered very odd and something of a cruel joke played by god.

None the less, in said universe woodshover not only becomes World Champ in chess, he also has time to post nonsense on chess websites about it.

The End.

Umm, that's what infinite universes would be like -- in one universe everything is the same except there is no such person as woodshover and there are two gods (or if you already subscribe to polytheism, then that many +1).  Furthermore this god is characterised by not only having your phisical  appearence, and personality but also your taste for assorted smoked meats.

What part of infinite universes did you not understand :p

enough said.

I have long argued for mroe chess sets to be made out of cheese (in this universe).

Just because it could happen, doesn't mean it has happened.

For example, an infinite set of numbers doesn't always contain every number.  The set of numbers

{2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 ...} is an infinite set of numbers, yet it contains no odd numbers.

Even if there are an infinite number of parallel universes, it doesn't mean everything that could happen, has happened.

How dare you flagrantly parade reasoning and logic on Chess.com? I suggest you find a universe where it will be appreciated.

That's interesting, hadn't thought that infinite doesn't necessarily mean all inclusive.  Although I thought the point of the theory was to suggest an infinite number of possible perturbations, you're right in that it doesn't automatically make it so.

lol, a much better response than my own

If you're interested in parallel universes, you should check this episode out.  It's great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29

 But this "god" wouldn't be able to perform miracles that defied the laws of physics. If it is a task that no matter how much training I went through, I would never be able to do on this earth even if I'd grown up with the finest of training, then in no part of the universe would I be performing it.

I doubt that I would have had the talent to become a GM, no matter how much training I had, so in no part of the universe would I ever be a WC. If any task or ability is beyond your natural talent on this earth, it would also be on every other earth. 

You would have to show it's physically possible  

You think Orangehonda's scenario is unlikely? Try this one... once upon a timelessnonbeingofatime there was a particle of spacetime all balled up on itself with absolutely nothing occuring and nothing to occur and nothing to disturb it's peaceful non-existent existence for all infinite infinities of non-time until all of sudden out of nothing and nowhere for no reason something happened, just like that, there was an event, a sui generis event, an uncaused cause, the first first, out of nothing, something, a SINGULARITY, KAPOW, and this disturbance of the universal nothing so distrubed the blissful emptyness that a rapid expansion of EVERYTHING in all directions occured ... resulting in stars and galaxies and supernova etc etc and blah blah until eventually, predictably I suppose in way and certainly no more or less likely than anything else, there were penny loafers, yes, with pennies in them, and every time I see penny loafers I think to myself... I can't believe out of the timeless inifitude of non-existence this elegant yet casual footwear came, in time, to be. 

If you are a chess master, them I'm grandmaster

Spock always beats Kirk at chess, the Captain is too easily distracted by the ladies: