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Dostoevsky and Chess: Talking with the Devil

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long_quach
Feb 14, 2025
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Vrooming_Rook wrote:

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Perfect.

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long_quach
Feb 14, 2025
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Vrooming_Rook wrote:
long_quach wrote:

I wished I had (well I did have time, but I didn't use it well) more time to read.

I have The Gambler on my bookshelf, but have not read it yet.

If I had another chance at life, I'd read more, more than I did.

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

I did see the movie The Gambler starring James Caan.

I guess you can call that the Cliff Notes version.

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long_quach
Feb 14, 2025
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Speaking of gambling (I never gambled), I would have lost my shirt had I gambled on UFC 312 for Suarez to beat Weili. Suarez was a wrestling specialist and undefeated. Weili is not a specialist in anything.

Online gambling is so pervasive, everybody is now a Gambler.

That's the lure of gambling, thinking you "have it in the bag".

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long_quach
Feb 15, 2025
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Vrooming_Rook wrote:

There are deep human experiences of duality, choice, and the confrontation with one's own nature thru inner dialogue with the double, devil, or alter-ego, whether on the chessboard or within the psyche of Dostoevsky's literary characters (think 'The Double').