Nigel Short: Women's brains not chess brains
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In the interest of full disclosure, even though I suck at chess, I like it and come here to read the chess articles. Yes, I read chess.com...for the articles...
May 10, 2015
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I agree, the articles are fun to read. The forums are interesting too. By reading the forums you can get a real perspective upon how little intelligence is involved with being a chess player
I play chess in the same way my grandmother used to play bridge on bridge night. :)
And Euchre in college. And poker post-college. ☺️
May 10, 2015
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Here it's like playing for fun is looked down upon. There is this 'you must improve'-thinking going on. You must get better, you must work harder---profit profit profit
May 10, 2015
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power_2_the_people wrote:
its good to hear from rational people from time to time and not only from puppets of radical ideologies
Agreed. I love reading reasonable thoughts in the forums, since they're so rare
trysts wrote:
Here it's like playing for fun is looked down upon. There is this 'you must improve'-thinking going on. You must get better, you must work harder---profit profit profit
I don't mind getting better. It's just at my age I have so many responsibilities and interests it's really quite impossible for me to play competitively. Most of my "me-time" is devoted to martial arts, so...
May 10, 2015
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#1369
There are a few members here who like/study/do/used to do martial arts. So maybe you'll meet them:)
Some guy (around 2300 FIDE) told me once: you must be aware of the fact that chess players are very arrogant...
Masamune314 wrote:
trysts wrote:
Here it's like playing for fun is looked down upon. There is this 'you must improve'-thinking going on. You must get better, you must work harder---profit profit profit
I don't mind getting better. It's just at my age I have so many responsibilities and interests it's really quite impossible for me to play competitively. Most of my "me-time" is devoted to martial arts, so...
Which martial art, Sharon?
May 10, 2015
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#1372
electricpawn wrote:
Masamune314 wrote:
trysts wrote:
Here it's like playing for fun is looked down upon. There is this 'you must improve'-thinking going on. You must get better, you must work harder---profit profit profit
I don't mind getting better. It's just at my age I have so many responsibilities and interests it's really quite impossible for me to play competitively. Most of my "me-time" is devoted to martial arts, so...
Which martial art, Sharon?
I was thinking of you and a couple other people I've read in the forums, Ed:) I'm clueless about martial arts, so I don't know which kind Masamune was speaking about?
I also do an sogo Budo (composite) form of aikido which includes a generous helping of traditional ground jujitsu (not unlike BJJ) and some judo to round things out. However, Iaido is my primary love, if I had to choose.
That's fantastically interesting to me. I've trained in different styles due to the fact that I MOVED A LOT FOR MY CAREER. I learned Escrima and Kali from a Filipino guy who was a family friend of my wife. He was also an Iado master. Fillipinos learn weapons before the get into hand to hand.
I earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, but one of the other arts I studied was Aikido. All moves in Aikido are circular and are based on the sword movements of Aikijutsu. If I may ask, what drew you to Iado?
I started out in aikido, but my Sensei also teaches iaido so about a year later I started iaido practice. In all honesty, it just looked interesting and unlike aikido, most of the work is solo, so it is great for stress relief when you have any time alone. I supposedly have more of an aptitude for iaido, by a margin, and it really drilled the "eternals" as my Sensei calls them, into me to help me with aikido. Most notably distance and timing. And, since aikido was derived in no small part from the sword and sword movements, they complement each other quite nicely, as I'm sure you've seen. I remember the first time I actually "took the center" (yes, we use that term) in kumitachi from a guy who had been practicing his whole life. Putting him on the defensive that day was one of the proudest moments of my MA career. No joke. I've also come to appreciate the aesthetics of the Japanese sword and skill and focus required. (And when you really start seeing this and realizing all of these other meditative arts like tea ceremony and flower arranging spring from the same spiritual well is amazing. ) Of course my aikido training is a bit of a pre-war aikido style, so it's a bit harder in form, but once you realize that whole yielding principle and not meeting force with force it's pretty awesome, even if you are putting your partner, or he/she is putting you through the mat. :)
Ok I, I'll stop here for now. I can go on for hours about it if people let me. 💤
That doesn't surprise me. Aikido is a subtle MA and takes a long time to learn. I would guess it would be popular with chess people. Just speculation, don't hold me to that.
power_2_the_people wrote:
after aïkido i did taï chi for which also because you don't need anybody else to practice i put many hours into
What style of aikido if I may ask?
power_2_the_people wrote:
if i had only put all those hours of practicing tai chi into chess instead lol
There are only so many hours in a day. :( Maybe in my next life. :)
power_2_the_people wrote:
aikido there is two styles i think?
More than that. Yoshinkan, Aikikai, Tomiki, Iwama, Ki Society, and several,others, although I can't think of all of them off the top of my head.
power_2_the_people wrote:
style is aikikai
Toshirō Suga holds the rank of 6th dan
Yep, that's the mainline style/organization. As I said I do an independent style, but one of my two Sempai (we are a small dojo) studied under Miyako Fujitani Sensei in the Aikiki organization. He teaches some of the classes, so we get exposure to different trains of aikido thought.
trysts wrote:
I liked the "immaculate"/"inaccurate" one earlier--totally confused me
I am immaculately innacurate. 😱