Mount Rushmores of the Mind

The mental spectrum of a patzer is filled with psychic Mount Rushmores like Bobby Fischer & Raul Capablanca. Exemplars of greatness to be strived for but never reached. Shining stars ever beyond the patzer. A patzer is an irrational emotional type who truly does believe:

 "Someday I'll be as good as Bobby Fischer." even though rationally the patzer knows well that it is impossible. The patzer walks in a  trail of brilliant psychic light left behind by the renowned maestros of the 64 squares. No doubt about it it's a form of hero worship which transmutes into a love of the game. Only if he is playing out of love can a patzer endure with undiminished enthusiasm after bitter morbid & otherwise humiliating & inconsolable losses. Every patzer glorifies to the point of adoration some Psychic Mount Rushmore in Chess history. He looks upon them the way wild sunflowers open their glorious faces to the brilliant life giving sunshine. He  understandstheir games only dimly because the cloudiness of his intellect eclipses the brilliance of his devotion. thus the patzer plods on day by day in subservient inferior positions against the better players in the community. Only the psychic Mount Rushmores in his imagination embolden him to carry on with uflagging unperturbed equanimity. The patzer believes that today's losses are merely necessary preludes to a brilliant future. He is an eternal optimist. A Don Quixote type who lives chasing an impossible dream. Listen closely to the patzer as he mutters to himself in fervent prayerlike whispers. "Someday I'll be as good as Bobby Fischer." (& the band plays on)