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

50% of Einstein quotes are made up. 

He's his own sockpuppet and he doesn't know it,
Too much to say and really should stow it.
Must give it over in case he should blow it
And then the whole World is going to know it.

that is very true, and i think all the memes are made up too

It's absoluely true that btickler's Covid thread was the officially designated one here ... probably because they knew he would not tolerate free speech. Any opinion that went contra was criticised and if the poster defended it, they were personally attacked and then blocked, when they stood up for themselves. I saw it happen to a large number of people, after which I was nearly the only critical person left alive. It was only fair on those who had been blocked for me to criticise it too, to stand up for them, in a manner of speaking. No semblance of free speech and that may have helped to do a lot of harm in the world.

And American scientists have indeed lost their jobs for disagreeing with the Big Bang. And  these days, getting the real information on Einstein is much more difficult than it was 15 years ago, because of the massive white-washing campaign.

And the word is "stow it". And the town is Stow.  There's a Wold of difference.

The guidelines were only that they were not allowed to differ in opinion from you. People can be as thick as two short planks but if they agree with you, the're good posters and much to be commended. And trolling is, quite simply, disagreement with your opinions: just as I'm trolling now. It has always been that way.

You would be a far happier bunny if you stopped allowing every little thing to make you angry. OK so I'm delusional, everyone is delusional. You're not delusional at all. It's important for us, your subjects, to know that.

P.S. I liked my little poem, because it scanned well and made the point that was intended. The "stow" comment was an example of English humour. Subtle, clever, corny and clearly not for you.

Why DID you make reference to Stowe School? Boasting that your father went to a public school? Not like you .... thought you're an egalitarian.

Good of you to make my point, sir. Ladedaland is any land where the subjects disagree with the opinions of the Master. How else could it be? We, your subjects, may be almost unanimous and therefore we will unanimously inhabit Ladedaland. You're magnificently eloquent, O Great One.

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Don't use the Wiki entry for this. Complely wrong. Thinks Cuthbert's character was introduced in 1972, not 1956. 

Chess.com is not a free speech site. Go to gab.com for free speech. Get the facts on Einstein for one thing.

I don't even know what over-reaching is. Doing something you disapprove of?

But I can see how much you're enjoying yourself, since you're winning every point you make. Why should you want me to stop setting you up for yet another win? You're doing so well that you ought to be enjoying it.

I see.  So I am enjoying it, but you wrote the bad poem, and tossed out all the corny dialogue. 

Overreaching is when a poster cannot back up the the claims they made, and turns to obsequious humor and flimsy strawmen to try and deflect their imagined audience away from that fact.

There's not much enjoyment, because there's not much challenge.  This is more of a public service I provide, free of charge..."don't grow up to become this guy", "don't make fun of your wife online", "don't habitually reject expertise and authority just because", etc.

I think I may turn my hand to writing a best selling, psychological novel, which will be useful as a psychology standard text, when I'm perhaps 75 and want a less physical life. I would defer it until I'm 80 but I want more than 25 years in which to enjoy the proceeds, drive fast cars, pull 25 year olds etc. I always intended to be a best selling author but became more interested in other things. There's only so much one person can do and I've done a fair bit of it already.

As for not growing up to become bticklish, that's self-evident but forunately, he's put so much effort into personally demonstrating the terrible things which can befall us, through his own examples, that he's already performed a great service to mankind, alhough he doesn't know it.

I was finding our game rather dull. I have some stamps I need to put in a stock book, which will be more interesting. Goodnight.

Its amazing how so many posts can be made and so little is said in 24 hours.

Matter of opinion. I think Maxwell was FAR greater than Einstein. It's just that Einstein died in the 50s and many of us can remember him dying. He based his work on that of Maxwell, without crediting Maxwell.

Einstein's natural inclination was to find a classical theory of everything resembling Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, and he is reported to have continued working on this late in life. The problem was that quantum mechanics provided an unsurmountable barrier to this!