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

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He tried to prove Queen=Mc2 , Got confused xD

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ghostbuster0007 wrote:

Optimissed, you are wrong my information is from the U.S. John Teller the inventor of the Hydrogen bomb was a student of Einstein at Princeton he has told me.He knows better than you. Secundo my great father Lord Jeans the inventor of the radars was a friend of Einstein. Third when I have invented the micro-processors in 1975 my IQ was tested by the U.S.A. it was 240. One of the highest IQ ever.Miss Rometty who became later the boss of IBM  was tested at 251. Meanwhile I play chess because there is no hollywood or NASA and no Silicone valley in Canada. I have succeeded there in music (composer) astronaut (ask to the other Charles) and I have solved the ten enigmas that Einstein did not solve, one of its was about electric circuits giving birth to Siliconevalley.

That's some crazy medication you must be on...

You clearly can't be talking about the Intel 4004, since that came out 4 years earlier than your inventor of the microprocessor claim, so you are probably talking about the 6502, that came out in '75.  But Chuck Peddle headed that team of 8 ex-Motorola members, and the 3 credited "designers" do not include anybody named Dery.

That's okay, my dad is getting much older and thinks that he invented the internet...by which he actually means that he worked on ARPAnet at some point.  He also thinks Bill Gates and Bill Clinton were in cahoots to suppress his career by creating the EULA.  It's sad because the things he did do are actually quite impressive, but he has forgotten those.

Even if IQ were not a discredited measure of general intelligence today, there are no human beings with 240+ tested and verified IQs.  False IQ claims abound all over the internet.  Carlsen, Kasparov, and Fischer were not 180-190.  Leonardo Da Vinci was not 220 and Isaac Newton was not 190 (there was no such thing as IQ in their respective time periods).  Judit Polgar was not 170.  Rometty, who coincidentally was just in the news after she stepped down from IBM in April, would surely have a note on her Wikipedia page if her verified IQ was the highest in the world (and arguably human history unless you subscribe to the Sidis claims of 250-300 IQ, which are ludicrous)...but she doesn't.

You cannot find a single verified source of these high IQ chess player claims.  If you Google around you will find a bunch of anecdotal articles that draw from each other in a circular fashion, and eventually you will find one that alludes to the truth...that these IQs are purely guess-timates, and very bad ones at that.

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Bobby Fischer called Physics a waste of time.  What do you think?

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choirbrown wrote:

Bobby Fischer called Physics a waste of time.  What do you think?

That's plain dumb. Does it need to be discussed?

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wait a sec. it kinda does. just to say, arithmetic is pretty much useless in chess. cuz counting ranks & files arent necessary. nor are points for each piece or move count. stuff like that. i mean right ?

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he wuzza math manipulator. take that as good or bad. depending on ur personal philosophies.

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not me. but then im a megapromoter of art. azzitsa journey to the center of the e(art)h.

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what does Einstein know anyway

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Yoloswagger69 hat geschrieben:

As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?

The theory of relativity is a waste of time, because it is neither scientific nor usefull. It is just fantasy. Ask Emanuel Lasker. I beat it is a revenge, because Lasker disbelieved the theory of relativity.

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Thee_Ghostess_Lola wrote:

wait a sec. it kinda does. just to say, arithmetic is pretty much useless in chess. cuz counting ranks & files arent necessary. nor are points for each piece or move count. stuff like that. i mean right ?

I count when playing chess all the time.  Mostly how many times a piece is defended vs attacked.  

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LineBreak escribió:

Einstein likely thought that everything (except physics) was a waste of time.

Kind of like how Fischer seemed to think that everything (except chess) was a waste of time.

Just an example of two obsessive minds who felt that their own pursuits were the only ones of value.

I'm pretty sure he didn't think that.

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energy is mass, mass is energy, Einstein is the greatest

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mass, enegy space time, he knew what it's all about

we will thank him forever for his great mind

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Well now we know that Einstein really was mad scientist!

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Yoloswagger69 wrote:

As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?

The op posted this almost 3 years ago and went offline 2 months later. And still it goes on. This can't possibly be a waste of time. 

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Yes. Chess is a waste of time. Just because it is fun does not mean there are any other good reasons to play it
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Reading you is a waste of time. Any chess player pretending to be more than Einstein should take a walk near park view.

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IMBacon22 wrote:
Yoloswagger69 wrote:

As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?

He was a chess player, but never said that.  

the interwebz...where you can quote anyone, about anything, at anytime.

I know, right? Like right now, I could say: "The internet is stupid" - Aristotle. Everyone would believe that, even though aristotle lived before the internet by thousands of years!

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einstein had 10 sets of suits and they were exactly the same. because he was thinking trying to decide what to wear, was also waste of time. now.. is that normal? i dont think it is.. well what kind of human are you, are you machine? do something different damit, live like a person, a human :) life shouldnt be that dull without any colors and games.. and i watched a tv serie about einstein.. and saw his wife was not happy.. duh

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gdzen wrote:

*snip* trying to decide what to wear, was also waste of time. now.. is that normal? i dont think it is.. well what kind of human are you, are you machine? do something different damit, live like a person, a human life shouldnt be that dull without any colors and games.. *snip*

If choosing clothes to wear is the highlight of your life then fine.  We're all different.  The bunny thinks that if you optimise routine tasks, you have more time for the more interesting things, to really live life, beyond maintenance ie. sleeping, bathing, changing,  etc.