Ziryab wrote:
He took the time to write an introduction to one of Lasker’s books.
Yep. I would have done the same. That's a one-off effort that takes a few hours, so not like playing chess to master level and beyond.
Einstein called chess a waste of time, what do you think?
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Reading what he wrote about Lasker and chess is not likely to lead one to the conclusion that he considered chess a waste of time, although the absence of evidence that he played chess could lead us to believe that he considered his own time better spent.
Ziryab wrote:
Reading what he wrote about Lasker and chess is not likely to lead one to the conclusion that he considered chess a waste of time, although the absence of evidence that he played chess could lead us to believe that he considered his own time better spent.
I am not saying he considered chess waste of time for anyone else. I said that his words could be twisted that way, and were.
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The first post in this thread makes a claim that must be rejected because no evidence supports it.
Post numbers 4 and 7 dramatically improve the first page.
Now, eight years later, most comments appear to assume that number 1 was correct.
woah
Ziryab wrote:
The first post in this thread makes a claim that must be rejected because no evidence supports it.
Post numbers 4 and 7 dramatically improve the first page.
Now, eight years later, most comments appear to assume that number 1 was correct.
Sure, they are misusing and misinterpreting what he may or may not have said the same way, and honestly that will never go away...insecure people will always try to prop up their own point of view by tying it to someone's they deem more respectable.
Makes me wonder why there isn't a long running thread about Benjamin Franklin's chess quotes. Probably because they are less easy to twist to other purposes.
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DiogenesDue wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
The first post in this thread makes a claim that must be rejected because no evidence supports it.
Post numbers 4 and 7 dramatically improve the first page.
Now, eight years later, most comments appear to assume that number 1 was correct.
Sure, they are misusing and misinterpreting what he may or may not have said the same way, and honestly that will never go away...insecure people will always try to prop up their own point of view by tying it to someone's they deem more respectable.
Makes me wonder why there isn't a long running thread about Benjamin Franklin's chess quotes. Probably because they are less easy to twist to other purposes.
Indeed. There's been plenty of distortion of what Franklin wrote about wine.
https://historynotebook.blogspot.com/2011/08/ben-franklin-on-wine.html
I don't think there's any direct quote, but he was asked on a number of occasions about his friendship with Lasker and how much he played chess and would he ever get to Lasker's level, and his answers, for those journalists with an agenda to push, could be unfairly summarized as "chess is a waste of time" (for Einstein himself).
He took the time to write an introduction to one of Lasker’s books.