Drunk Magnus for the win.
Who are the nicest chess players at the top?
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Nice necrobump.
And this thread aged like milk.
As you mention: Anand and Spassky.
Svidler.
It Seems like Rakhmanov is. I looked at a stream of his, not at all what you'd get from his picture.
From what I saw from all the quotes I've read, I don't know about nice, but The Most Normal person is Karpov.
Seeing posts from 2013 and realizing that they are now 11 years old is kind of crazy. Discussions back then were so much more civilized.
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
Savage wrote:
Roma60 wrote:
karpov he a nice person he as won awards all over the world. and everyone in chess repects him.
Karpov is probably the biggest POS ever to play chess; none of the ex-Soviet GMs - who know him best - have a single good word to say about him. Why don't you ask Boris Gulko what he thinks of this communist party stool-pigeon.
Even if he's a communist so what? It doesn't make him a bad person. Not everyone can agree with everything and if the entire world were the same it'd be boring. The entire world shouldn't be capitalist after all. Equating capitalism with freedom doesn't even hold water since certain people will never be free to attend college, since it's mostly about how rich your parents are and not how smart you are, and no matter how responsible a poor person is saving up for one class might take a year given that even just one class is ludicrously expensive ($900 in many places). In other words, the gatekeeper to the middle class, college, is doing its job keeping social mobility from happening and defending the class status quo.
It's not like you need college to succeed in a free society, though. And anyway, in communism, 98% of people lose while in capitalism, only a small minority loses and even those losers are better off than 80% or more of people in communist societies.
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
Savage wrote:
ScorpionPackAttack wrote:
Even if he's a communist so what? It doesn't make him a bad person. Not everyone can agree with everything and if the entire world were the same it'd be boring. The entire world shouldn't be capitalist after all. Equating capitalism with freedom doesn't even hold water since certain people will never be free to attend college, since it's mostly about how rich your parents are and not how smart you are, and no matter how responsible a poor person is saving up for one class might take a year given that even just one class is ludicrously expensive ($900 in many places). In other words, the gatekeeper to the middle class, college, is doing its job keeping social mobility from happening and defending the class status quo.
Go recite your socialist paradise spiel to someone who's interested, comrade.
Capitalism isn't even a true meritocracy though since there are people no matter how smart they are won't ever earn enough money to buy their freedom, especially in America. Capitalism sounds good on the surface, work hard and get rich, right? There's a problem, because not everyone can be at the top. That's capitalism's biggest flaw, and for every billionaire 50,000 people need to produce wealth for him. Most of those people are in China working for less than the value of their work product.
Japanese executives only earn $100,000 USD, I think we should outsource executive jobs to Japan to save the companies a lot of money on executive pay. It's only fair after all, if blue collar jobs can be outsourced then why not top jobs?
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither internal nor external controls on government would be necessary." Listen, nobody is perfect. If you are suggesting a solution that relies on laws, then that will only create its own host of problems and will give government unnecessary power. What is that saying about power again? "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Capitalism in its present form in the United States minus onerous government regulations and ensured by a democratic republic is the best it is going to get before Jesus' second coming, even if in theory you could dream up something better.
Kylearan wrote:
Nice necrobump.
And this thread aged like milk.
Can't believe I posted this thread 11 years ago... now I'm much better at math and much worse at chess lolol. All hail number theory I guess.
Fabi, MVL, Levon
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Dora the explorer...
Why Wesley?
Back in 2013, I included Kramnik among the nice guys. Time has proven that wrong.
Most of today’s elites are nice and often quite generous with their time.
Magnus Carlsen, he blunders for no purpose.