I assume chess has always been this way: 90% people on earth play the game, and out of that percentage 10% become coaches and masters.
those that can ?...do.
those that cant ?...coach.
It has to be said that old joke doesn't really work for chess. Kasparov has coached. 
besides, wuznt it AE himself who said ?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain
which just says that he himself didnt trust what he wuz doing !
and so if he didnt ?...then why should I ?
Einstein is a false god, i.e. "fabricated celebrity", of the gentiles.
~Keep it real
I assume chess has always been this way: 90% people on earth play the game, and out of that percentage 10% become coaches and masters. The rest of the 80% consists largely of enthusiasts who play the game as a pastime.
However, chess is such a prestigious game, much like your golf and your swimming, that it's even taught at schools and so forth. But it's no different from any of the other sporting activities. It's only as valuable and only as invaluable as the rest of those sporting activities; there are certain benefits to the game, and then there are also certain downsides to it.
Here's the catch: chess is so easy a thing to become obsessed with because it deals in matters of intelligence. People generally can't help but want to prove that they're smart enough, strategic as much as the next guy or gal. They can accept inferior positions in any other aspect of their lives but certainly not intelligence.
So we obsess - over a game - and well, one can see how that could be somewhat of a waste.
For the record: I think we're all, as people, equipped and capable of witts as awesome as the next. There are reasons why we are at times spaced apart in this regard, but those reasons don't discount potential.
do you sincerely think that 90% of people play chess even as a past time?. if it's 20% of whole population it's a huge success. i also think that 50% or more of planet population die without playing one chess game
I assume chess has always been this way: 90% people on earth play the game, and out of that percentage 10% become coaches and masters. The rest of the 80% consists largely of enthusiasts who play the game as a pastime.
However, chess is such a prestigious game, much like your golf and your swimming, that it's even taught at schools and so forth. But it's no different from any of the other sporting activities. It's only as valuable and only as invaluable as the rest of those sporting activities; there are certain benefits to the game, and then there are also certain downsides to it.
Here's the catch: chess is so easy a thing to become obsessed with because it deals in matters of intelligence. People generally can't help but want to prove that they're smart enough, strategic as much as the next guy or gal. They can accept inferior positions in any other aspect of their lives but certainly not intelligence.
So we obsess - over a game - and well, one can see how that could be somewhat of a waste.
For the record: I think we're all, as people, equipped and capable of witts as awesome as the next. There are reasons why we are at times spaced apart in this regard, but those reasons don't discount potential.
do you sincerely think that 90% of people play chess even as a past time?. if it's 20% of whole population it's a huge success. i also think that 50% or more of planet population die without playing one chess game
I was actually thinking about that, and while I believe that 90% of the population are at least aware of what chess is, perhaps seen it in a movie or something, I think we could alter my earlier stats to read as follows:
If 90% people on earth...
That way it becomes adjustable, and I remain right whatever people say 😁.
At age 77, chess might save me from dementia. It's like taking my brain to the gym. Not a waste of time.
then drop dn and give me 25 moves...lol !! (...keep well luv )
@thee_ghostess_lola that was a great post! Mixing military jargon with chess moves. I love it.
I assume chess has always been this way: 90% people on earth play the game, and out of that percentage 10% become coaches and masters. The rest of the 80% consists largely of enthusiasts who play the game as a pastime.
However, chess is such a prestigious game, much like your golf and your swimming, that it's even taught at schools and so forth. But it's no different from any of the other sporting activities. It's only as valuable and only as invaluable as the rest of those sporting activities; there are certain benefits to the game, and then there are also certain downsides to it.
Here's the catch: chess is so easy a thing to become obsessed with because it deals in matters of intelligence. People generally can't help but want to prove that they're smart enough, strategic as much as the next guy or gal. They can accept inferior positions in any other aspect of their lives but certainly not intelligence.
So we obsess - over a game - and well, one can see how that could be somewhat of a waste.
For the record: I think we're all, as people, equipped and capable of witts as awesome as the next. There are reasons why we are at times spaced apart in this regard, but those reasons don't discount potential.
do you sincerely think that 90% of people play chess even as a past time?. if it's 20% of whole population it's a huge success. i also think that 50% or more of planet population die without playing one chess game
I was actually thinking about that, and while I believe that 90% of the population are at least aware of what chess is, perhaps seen it in a movie or something, I think we could alter my earlier stats to read as follows:
If 90% people on earth...
That way it becomes adjustable, and I remain right whatever people say 😁.
I would like to disagree here. I live in China, and even though people are well aware of Chinese Chess (lot of people actually play it in the streets), very few of them know about "international chess" (it is translated this way). Yes, there are currently a lot of great chinese chess players, and it turns out some young people know about Hou Yifan, but nobody knows about Ding Liren or Ju wenjun. Seeing that China has about a fifth of the Earth population, and that a whole lot of them have no clue about "international chess", I am pretty confident that not 90% of the world population is aware of Chess.
Relativity Theory, Someone thinks is true? Energy Theory between two things someone thinks works? Please God made sky and Earth. Better if he would better waste his time learning chess. Rest in peace anyway. Sometimes scientifics are full of Proud. Big mistake. The Lord will be with you and your false ideas anyway.
God created internet and chess with it, you should be grateful for that, otherwise I am afriad he is going to checkmate you.
I don't know if Einstein said it was a waste of time, but for him it surely was as he was working on great theories in physics. Personally, I don't see chess as a great measure of intelligence. In so far as memory is a part of intelligence, then it shows intelligence. For the most part, great chess players have great memories and are able to track 12 or 15 potential moves in their memory before deciding on a move. You can't say it is a matter of understanding the theory when many possibilities are available. I love chess but will never be very good at it due to my lack of memory (due to a stroke and because my body does not absorb vitamin B-12). Chess.com has me at 800 now, and I've hit a plateau. I expect Einstein had a great memory too… a great memory, like good verbal skills, allows other intelligences to shine through. And often great memory and verbal skills are mistaken for high intelligence, while they are just a small part of intelligence.
I've actually read a lot about Einstein, and I never once saw him calling it a waste of time.
He didn't play chess because it was too competitive. That's it. Perhaps he was worried he would become obsessed with it.
But Einstein never called chess a waste of time. And you should not spread lies about the dead and their beliefs.
Can't anyone realize that most or maybe 95% of Einstein quotes are fake.
Maybe, but people in the know realize that Einstein used to play Lasker on occasion, and that his chess quotes are accurate.
On attribue à Albert Einstein le mérite d'avoir décrit le jeu comme une perte de temps. Mais il semble qu'il ne qualifiait pas le jeu de perte de temps totale, mais d'activité qu'il pratiquait lorsqu'il avait besoin de faire une pause dans son travail.
Compte tenu de ses autres excentricités, cette déclaration pourrait être considérée comme une réflexion sur l'utilisation de son temps et non comme un commentaire sur les autres personnes jouant au jeu
Albert Einstein is credited with describing gambling as a waste of time. But it seems that he did not call gambling a total waste of time, but an activity he engaged in when he needed a break from his work.
Given his other eccentricities, this statement could be seen as a reflection on his use of time and not as a comment on other people playing the game
As. Professor Hans. Gniesunt -Bumsadazy concurred. With the error. Re. The Theory. Of. Relativity perhaps. AE should have. Stuck. To chess
It's thought by many that Mileva Maric was the better mathematician of the two. She was his wife.
When you brought this up before, people said this was also debunked.
Einstein was an 1800-ish player. Perfectly adequate for a dabbler, I would say.
There's really no arguing that chess isn't a waste of time...I mean, that's what leisure activities are, "wastes of time". So are family events, friendships, falling in love, etc. All the best things in life are "wastes of time" 
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