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Einstein called chess a waste of time, what do you think?
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God-Save-The-Keane wrote:
chess.com people talking science can be too painful to witness.
That's nothing, wait till you hear us sing in a choir! xD
darkhorsejames wrote:
I agree it's a good variation.
hahahaaaa!!! xD
Sep 4, 2017
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solskytz escribió:
Einstein discovered that chess was a waste of time - but also that time is a misperception and an illusion - so it's basically a waste of something that doesn't even exist - I think I could live with that.
This is inaccurate, because one wouldn't be able to make an empirical observation and derive several verified formulas for an object that doesn't exist. Only someone who hasn't thoroughly studied special & general relativity think that Einstein proved time doesn't exist. You also realize quantum physics would disagree with you as well.
Sep 4, 2017
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Reb escribió:
Did Albert ever stop beating his wife ? I guess he didnt feel that was a waste of his time ...
Ouch,
Sep 4, 2017
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#87
ProfessorPownall escribió:
Dodger111 wrote:
Can't believe Einstein supposedly said in the article that he only played chess "once or twice as a boy" why would he have said that? He was an avid chess player, was friends with world champion Emmanuel Lasker who was also a professor of mathmatics, and supposedly even won a game or two off of him out of the many they played.
What up with that "I only played a couple times as a boy" line?
This is what Einstein said. He rarely played chess and certainly was not an "avid player" as Dodger111 claims. He said chess was to stressful. In his off time from work he liked to "relax" and found chess to taxing on his mind. He never said "chess is a waste of time". He simply did not find enjoyment in playing. Also, Einstein was never a Professor of Mathematics but a Professor of Theoretical Physics. So many people in these forums just "make stuff up off the top of their head".
I call BS on this, since by definition one cannot "relax" doing an activity that is stressful.
Yoloswagger69 wrote:
I think you all are getting his meaning wrong.... He thinks chess is a relaxing game, not a painful theory... For him, science was everything. So, the didn't bother too much about chess......
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?
AviaSharma wrote:
I think you all are getting his meaning wrong.... He thinks chess is a relaxing game, not a painful theory... For him, science was everything. So, he didn't bother too much about chess......
Yoloswagger69 wrote:
I think you all are getting his meaning wrong.... He thinks chess is a relaxing game, not a painful theory... For him, science was everything. So, the didn't bother too much about chess......
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?
actually, it's a rare line of the old threads 'is chess a waste of time', Einstein just serving as a novelty.
Sep 6, 2017
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#92
Goram wrote:
actually, it's a rare line of the old threads 'is chess a waste of time', Einstein just serving as a novelty.
Sep 6, 2017
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#93
But if you play chess in a star ship travelling to Andromeda Nebula and back at almost light speed, you'll be wasting much less time. (Or more?)
He was intelligent enough to understand hat chess should be no more than a past time. It is stupid to dedicate many hours to it everyday when there are so many more interesting and productive things to do in life.
Sep 6, 2017
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Pashak1989 wrote:
He was intelligent enough to understand hat chess should be no more than a past time. It is stupid to dedicate many hours to it everyday when there are so many more interesting and productive things to do in life.
like [insert edit here] practicing on making babies...IJS
Sep 6, 2017
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#96
What any one person finds more interesting or productive is certainly different than what another might 
Really, [removed -- VP] him.
Its an opinion but...he didn't have to say that.
Apr 9, 2018
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#100
Einstein's observation is unfortunately quite accurate: "...the chess playing of a master ties him to the game, fetters his mind and shapes it to a certain extent so that his internal freedom and ease, no matter how strong he is, must inevitably be affected." Chess, especially on the higher levels, demands hours upon hours of study and concentration during play. It is much like music: the more you practice and study, the better you become. This should not be, however, to the exclusion of everything else.
Lunchtime doubly so.