If chess players are so smart why they are not millionaires/billionaires?

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yomexy

Chess should be added to olympic games, its long overdue FIDE do something.

johnmusacha

Chess should be made compulsory to every man woman and child on the planet, under penalty of death.

Akatsuki64
johnmusacha wrote:

Chess should be made compulsory to every man woman and child on the planet, under penalty of death.

This is worse than communism.......

yomexy

Did anybody shove football down peoples throats before they liked it, Don't assume peoples taste for them. There are about 6billion people on this earth yet some hate football with a passion, despite it popularity. So people who would love chess will be in millions. People are very much attracted to what they can see.

johnmusacha
yomexy wrote:

Did anybody shove football down peoples throats before they liked it, Don't assume peoples taste for them. There are about 6billion people on this earth yet some hate football with a passion, despite it popularity. So people who would love chess will be in millions. People are very much attracted to what they can see.

You are the one talking about shoving chess down people's throats.

It's not as simple as "show it on tv then people will like it."

In all seriousness, ever heard of the English phrase "putting the cart before the horse"?

That is what you are doing.

yomexy

Then about 20000 people who play on Chess.com daily don't like chess they were forced by alqeada with guns on there heads to play it. I finally agreed with you on this one brah.

johnmusacha

Yeah brah.  These 20,000 people aren't going to make much of a television viewership brah.

Are you really that dense brah?

yomexy

It seems you are more dense.

chesswarzone

Oh its simple. they focus more on game than money. Cool

yomexy

A man with weakness in ability to argue will always result to abuse. That's what you have done , you have just displayed your weakness to the public to see. What a shame. What I said initially was a suggestion or recommendation to improve the game awareness and not meant to force anybody to do it. It seems you need a tutorial on basic english on how to differentiate between suggestions and policy statements brah Johnmuscha or whatever you call yourself.

johnmusacha

I am perfectly able to argue rationally and dispassionately.  Your initial statment was, brah, too stupid to bother with any of that stuff, brah.

mjm16

some are actually but most dont get the recognition they deserve

mjm16
chesswarzone wrote:

Oh its simple. they focus more on game than money. 

that is true

yomexy

I am happy you qualify yourself as rational and reasonable and any human biegn who truly posess such qualities as you claim would know that everyone is entitled to his his or her own opinion. My own opinion of you is that you are not reasonable or rational as you think you are. I can really guess your age though I have not seen you. Your mind is still in its formative stage Grow up boy.

johnmusacha

I am 8.

yomexy

I knew it.

johnmusacha

I am third smartest in my class though.  

yomexy

Let me enligthen you that No single idea is perfect. And the fact other peopls opinion does not match what you think does not mean it is bad either you just learn to see things from other peoples perspective. And to be a top chess player you have to learn to see things from your opponents perspective ask Anand, carlsen , Kasparov, Karpov they all know this important principle they might not say it openly because its one of their secret weapon.

yomexy

You can be a genius for all I care that's your biusness.

Cliff_Sedge

Has anyone derived the equation smart = money yet?