Can astrology really help your chess?

Well, astrology really helped my chess. I think it might be because it is right next to the chess column in the Daily Mail.

As a scientific test

Let me tell you certain things extremely important regarding Astrology:

(1) you are Pisces because you are born between this month-to-that month is crap! This childish nomenclature is correct only in less than 5-10% cases. Real astrology works in much more complicated way - thus all (true) signs of Zodiac can be born in any ONE particular month, twins born at difference of minutes may have totally different signs and nature - there is pretty complicated calculations based on actual astronomical positions of the planets, which change every 12 minutes! First get your sign correct by a genuine astrologer who does the actual calculations - then you can check "newspaper" horoscopes for free. If your sign is wrong (more than 90% cases if you take only birth-month), you will find almost every prediction wrong.

(2) There are 9 fraudulent astrologers to every 1 genuine astrologer - believe me, I have expreienced that. And it is extremely difficult to find a genuine astrologer. Tip: genuine astrologers do not have craving for money.

(3) True astrology is not a precision science (there are large zones of uncertainty even from predictions of genuine astrologers, e.g.: one might say you will have monetary gain during this period - it may be a raise, a change in job for the better, or even inheritence or lottery) only a handful of people know in the world!

(4) Too much dependance on astrology weakens the mind - I have seen several cases. Better be a non-believer than a morbid depender on astrology. If you use it to help (like a tiny flashlight in the darkness of future), then it might be beneficial.

Finally, to do unbiased justice to astrology, I must say some predictions (from a friend who is a genuine astrologer and not a thief) came uncannily true: I lost job when he said there was high chance of "no-work" even after doing my work extra-carefully during that period. I sprained my ankle and was home-bound for 3 weeks when he said there was high chance of "illness" (all my high dosage of vitamins were of no avail). And no, it was not a psychological trick on a weak mind - I consider myself a strong-minded person.

Astrology has been around for 1000's of years and many people swear by it including celebrities who enrich our lives and give it meaning. We all choose our own reality and you just need to ask the Universe for whatever you want and it will find a way to manifest it for you.

Quantum Mechanics. Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle. Only now are we scratching the surface of the mechanisms which have been powering the arcane capacities of the mystics.

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(3) True astrology is not a precision science (there are large zones of uncertainty even from predictions of genuine astrologers, e.g.: one might say you will have monetary gain during this period - it may be a raise, a change in job for the better, or even inheritence or lottery) only a handful of people know in the world!

How can chess players have a reputation of being smart when we believe in astrology. It's embarrassing. Seriously, what's next? Creationism?! If we stoop any lower then I'm leaving chess.com

Anyone who can believe we evolved from monkeys has already stooped as embarrassingly low as they can get.

Anyone who can believe we evolved from monkeys has already stooped as embarrassingly low as they can get.

 Truly, this is how astrology works. I took a psychology class in high school. The professor had us take a personality test: 100 multiple choice questions graded by a computer. When we got the results back, he had us grade them, to see if we thought they were accurate assesments of our personalities. There was pretty much universal agreement that the test had done a good job. Then he had us change results with the person next to us. All the results were exactly the same.

The point is that if you make your personality judgements vague enough, they will be true more often than not. And if you make your predictions vague enough, they will come true more often than not.

 You've obviously never seen the Borat movie.

 Thank you for proving his point.

And you're a cute little boy too! Seriously mate, ERV's, transitional fossils, human chromosome number 2, we share over 98% of our DNA with Chimps. I mean, how much proof do you need.