
The Gurdjieff Chess book or the Chess Gurdjieff book?
Today was one of the more interesting days, talking with an "overseas entity" about the kind of chess, mathematical, technical and of course psychological work I do with my trainees and how I could export it and expose it to a wider audience. Then, I thought I should do a web search on a rather prosaic aspect of software engineering, namely "legacy systems", and I came across new books such as Gurdjieff Legacy 2019 and Alexander The Great 2018 .
And yes, Alexander and Plato etc will be revisited year after year, perhaps for all eternity, especially with Plato with have multiple doctoral dissertations almost every year. It will be interesting to see if the lesser known "Greek" can catch up, and despite the regular trolling I receive for Gurdjieff being a cult leader and, most likely, myself being a cult leader, this gave me an idea.
What if, I wrote a book on Gurdjieff and chess, or vice versa. Sure, there are others more qualified perhaps for G., just as there certainly are others more qualified for chess. But for the intersection, I might as well be money in the bank, or, shall we say, crypto in the private key.
My ultimate writing project remains a book on General Intelligence, but there may be one more intermediate project along the way, a chess curriculum with healthy doses of math, something like Everyday Math, but for chess.
And when can you expect, dear reader, such masterpieces? Well, 2020!