Without checking Fischer's original statement, I can render the quote given as "As is well known, Morphy stopped playing chess in 1859. His disappointment was not so much with chess as with chess players." Interestingly, in Fischer's case the reason for his withdrawal from professional chess competition may have been the reverse.
Parents Pressuring Kids to Play Competitive Chess
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Klauer wrote:
As this is related to another now happily closed topic I give my thoughts as professional psychologist having worked for 30 years in a psychiatry and chess trainer having worked for more than 10 years with kids and parents.
The first topic was full of racist hatred based on fully ingnorant hysteria. And this is still a compliment for some of the comments against the father and his daughter. Without knowing anything, ANYTHING, about interactions in a family writing such comments is hurting. There was a lack of basic respect and wish to understand what people think and how they act. If you read something like this you know why there is war in the world.
Chess should be and is mostly about having fun and living aggression in a peaceful manner allowing to learn to know other people and shaking hands before the game and have a good talk after it. All chess clubs in germany I know personally have members, that would have a very hard stand if accepted in any other club. So chess does a lot for integration of men into social life. Robert James Fischer was right if he called chess "mind *#$&". Every chess player should be greatful for this and as a german proverb says "sweep in front of his door".
Care for yourself and other people to not have the fate I give in a translated quote from Robert James Fischer. A translation service will help and maybe someone finds the american original: „Wie bekannt ist, hörte Morphy 1859 auf, Schach zu spielen. Seine Enttäuschung galt nicht so sehr dem Schach, wie den Schachspielern.“
No, that dad was a narcissistic guy who enjoyed berating his own daughter on a public website viewed by thousands every day. He had what was coming to him, and those "racist" things are based on FACT, Asians do tend to be harsh on their kids. It's not like whipping any random black guy you see, there's real evidence of this, especially in the public education system.
knowing anything, ANYTHING, about interactions in a family writing such comments is hurting. There was a lack of basic respect and wish to understand what people think and how they act .
It's seen that you are officially condoned this kind of post Klauer on a chess forum ,
Point is he wrote those's words , So that what one would go on . YES ?
Still as a Father I find this not the way one should handle your child or there mistakes .
When my 11 year old son blunders in a tournament or makes to many mistakes, I take his weed away for a week. It's pretty harsh but a father has to put his foot down from time to time.
I am 13.
Is there any parents that think chess is a waste of time?
Family values.
This thread is very funny because most of the kids who are "pushed" into being competitive by their parents are often much more successful than the ones who go the "natural" way. That's one of the secrets of asian success - being aggressive and competitive, and realizing that very often your parents are right. But people always find it easier to blame genes.
May 5, 2018
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LearningChess4Years wrote:
Is there any parents that think chess is a waste of time?
It's a lesser evil. However I would prioritize grammar over chess for school kids.
My mathematics is excellent though.
Last year, I got a 99 percentile. In the Australian Mathematics Competition I got top 0.3%
May 5, 2018
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LearningChess4Years wrote:
Last year, I got a 99 percentile. In the Australian Mathematics Competition I got top 0.3%
Congrats. But remember you live in a globalized system :-)
My grammar is good, but my narrative and persuasive writing skills could be improved.
May 5, 2018
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LearningChess4Years wrote:
My grammar is good, but my narrative and persuasive writing skills could be improved.
May 6, 2018
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bffindua wrote:
president_max, this is chess, not uour English class, go away u bustard
Ooh fresh account. And a magician too. Turned a bunny into a bird!
May 6, 2018
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bffindua wrote:
if anyone want to share anything wrong about Asia,Then i will [censored] him/her
You're what's wrong with Asia.
Australia falling behind? Well at least I'm not. "high-performing countries such as Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei and Japan made steady improvements"
Sleep is the main problem tho, how can you survive getting up every 2 hours every day for a year? Sleep is as essential to the body as WATER. I need 9-10 hours every day so there's no way I'm ever having a kid.