Einstein called chess a waste of time, what do you think?

Einstein called chess a waste of time, what do you think?

Wasting time was his job.

Its the theoretical physicists job ant it?

Eistein also said that computers killed classic chess. I mean, he obviously wasn't always right.

I dont buy that

this might be because there is competition to becoming gm.

instead of, you know, intense study of the physical properties of the universe that actually means something.

is this the theory of chess relativity? or irrelavence?

Einstein failed high school math.  That gave me some hope.  I was intrigued by math, but I hated high school geometry and linear algebra.

When I went to college in MIchigan,, all my friends were in calculus, but I took pre-calculus math, which covered trigonometry and some advanced algebra because I was pretty confused about it.  At some point, my father told me to look at math puzzles like a game, not a painful chore.   That shift in attitude seemed to help.  My sophomore year, I discovered computers (back then, a Xerox Sigma 6 mainfraime - later morphed into the Honeywell CP-V) and the game Adventure.  To keep my gaming career going, I declared a math major and added computer science in my junior year, so I could get a job as a mainframe slave (and allocate more memory to myself to expand my Adventure hobby).

WIth hard work and perserverance, I scraped by with my bachelor degree cum laude and got my first "real" job as the theoretical mathetmatician for a research institute, dreaming up equations to describe data that the computer faithfully generated from the experiments performed by the scientists.   From there, I went on to become an IT Manager and one of America's first Agile software developers.   I managed the Agile Team way before "SCRUM" because a title and DEVOPS became a buzz word. 

When Nokia was bankrupted by the idiot Canadian, who thought Microsoft Windows was better than Android, I went back to school and wrote my master's thesis because I observed the problems with big ERP systems and felt there should be a way to evolve them.  My interests centered on on knowledge work informatics and Aalter's Work Systems Theory, and - much to my surprise - my thesis received the highest grade in my class of peers. 

While my accomplishments pale in comparison to the great minds of this world, at least I'm hanging in there.

All because Einstein failed high school math. 

Of course it is a waste of time We should all be playing kal-toh

So that means you don't trust Mumbo Jumbo? How dare you?!?! XD

In the grand scheme, everything we do in the living realm is a waste of time.  When you are faced with an eternity of boredom, you can complement things such as:  "Does time exist?".

May be chess can exercise the brain.

be proud. not e/o has that.

"I have good manners by playing chess"

But if I can get my grandkids to play and love chess, maybe they will become Einsteins.  

Agreed

Time is a waste of chess.

He stuck his tongue out too much. I don't like him at all.

In some of Einstein's work was helped in math by his girlfriend/wife ?

Nevertheless. he is a brilliant. Whether his theory will stand as Newton's laws.

No great pure Scientist does his work for society. He does it first and foremost because he loves to do it. Richard Feynman said that Physics is like Sex. It may have some use but thats not why we do it.

Hence having fun has more priority. Gone are the days when we worked for sole survival purpose.

No great pure Scientist does his work for society. He does it first and foremost because he loves to do it. Richard Feynman said that Physics is like Sex. It may have some use but thats not why we do it.

Hence having fun has more priority. Gone are the days when we worked for sole survival purpose.

He may not find chess more fun than physics. Its his personal choice. Einstein was a human like us.