Prove that chess masters are stupid - Chess Forums - Page 2

TheRodgerYoung

Apr 12, 2015

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Reb wrote:

Pr0bl3m wrote:

Reb wrote:

Using the word " prove " when the word " proof " should be used isnt a spelling problem . He is using the wrong word but the word he uses is spelled properly . Its like the people who don't seem to know the difference between : their, they're and there ...

Are those people sort of like the people who also don't know the difference between "its" and "it's," maybe? Or, the people who don't know that there's an apostrophe in the word, isn't... :)

Good catch but the truth is that I am just too lazy to bother much with apostrophes . I know when to use them but I don't normally bother .

Hey, wait a minute, Rex Blalock? Didn't we play a few games at the Dothan Chess Club a while back? heh, funny how that works.

Greasedlightnin

Apr 12, 2015

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#22

maybe So doesn't use apostrophes too when he writes "dont take patzers lightly, theyd do anything to win".

Greasedlightnin

Apr 12, 2015

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#23

nah, he wouldnt be into wussy rules.

There was a time when chess players had nerves of steel.

NM TheOldReb

Apr 12, 2015

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#24

Yes, I haven't been to the DCC in a long time but I used to go fairly often .

Greasedlightnin

Apr 12, 2015

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#25

according to chessdicky I must not know any chess history.

try to stop thinking dicky, you are surely better at other things.

Are there any other members you intensely dislike that you could tail around on the forums ?

Blunderfest

Apr 12, 2015

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#26

tkbunny wrote:

^

varelse1

Apr 12, 2015

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#27

Chess masters spend far more time and effort perfecting their craft than professional golfers, bowlers, or fishermen. For one tenth the money, sponsorsips, glory, or women.

Greasedlightnin

Apr 12, 2015

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#28

their goals are not as high as regular people.

RoobieRoo

Apr 12, 2015

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#29

One was caught cheating in the Dubai open, GM Gaioz Nigalidze had an iphone hidden in the restroom, if thats not dim i dunno what is.

http://www.dubaichess.ae/2015/04/12/dubai-bans-georgian-chess-champion-caught-cheating-at-dubai-open-chess-tournament/

Greasedlightnin

Apr 12, 2015

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#30

And the cleaner was complaining about floaters!

trysts

Apr 12, 2015

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#31

Whip_Kitten wrote:

Of course So is smart. He was solving Khabibullin's conjecture on integral equalities. Duh:

Let $\displaystyle S$ be a non-negative increasing function on the half-line $[0,+\infty)$ such that $\displaystyle S(0)=0$ . Assume that $\displaystyle S(e^x)$ is a convex function of $x\in[-\infty,+\infty)$ . Let $\lambda\geq 1/2$ , $n\geq 2$ , and $n\in\mathbb N$ . If

$\int^1_0 S(tx)\,(1-x^2)^{n-2}\,x\,dx\leq t^\lambda\text{ for all }t\in[0,+\infty),$

(1)

then

$\int^{+\infty}_0 S(t)\,\frac{t^{2\lambda-1}}{(1+t^{2\lambda})^2}\,dt\leq \frac{\pi\,(n-1)}{2\lambda}\prod_{k=1}^{n-1} \Bigl(1+\frac{\lambda}{2k}\Bigr).$

Harvard janitors could figure that out;)

ProfessorProfesesen

Apr 12, 2015

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#32

This thread is turning out to be not so bad after all...given the unpromising material....

Hmmm....what plot twist can we add?

When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

--Raymond Chandler

varelse1

Apr 12, 2015

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robbie_1969 wrote:

One was caught cheating in the Dubai open, GM Gaioz Nigalidze had an iphone hidden in the restroom, if thats not dim i dunno what is.

http://www.dubaichess.ae/2015/04/12/dubai-bans-georgian-chess-champion-caught-cheating-at-dubai-open-chess-tournament/v

.

The lesson we learn here is......

DON'T GET CAUGHT!

Think we got it now.

DrCheckevertim

Apr 12, 2015

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#34

Intelligence is not just one thing that goes up or down, like a chess rating (or IQ test, for that matter.)

You can be intelligent and stupid at different things, in different ways... even solving "Khabibullin's conjecture on integral equalities" as posted on the previous page, does not mean you are "smart." It means you have a certain set of skills and understandings, which are a tiny sliver of what it really means to be wholly intelligent.

Mikhail Tal was a brilliant combinative chess player, but horrible at making toast. Was he stupid or smart? Bobby Fischer was an imaginative chess genius, but didn't know how to treat himself or others. Probably had no idea about calculus or literature. Stupid or smart?

trysts

Apr 12, 2015

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#35

Yeah, really. He won the Geogian State championship twice and he decides to cheat now? He's probably a serial-cheater.

trysts

Apr 12, 2015

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#36

DrCheckevertim wrote:

Intelligence is not just one thing that goes up or down, like a chess rating (or IQ test, for that matter.)

Or insanity

DrCheckevertim

Apr 12, 2015

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#37

I would disagree that insanity is one thing that goes up or down, but it's a bit more difficult to discuss and I don't want to go there...

trysts

Apr 12, 2015

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#38

DrCheckevertim wrote:

I would disagree that insanity is one thing that goes up or down, but it's a bit more difficult to discuss and I don't want to go there...

Well you can always go here:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/insanity-and-chess-ratings

I believe we each, as individuals, evaluate the people we come across in our lives as having an insanity rating, just like chess ratings:)

DrCheckevertim

Apr 12, 2015

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#39

trysts wrote:

I believe we each, as individuals, evaluate the people we come across in our lives as having an insanity rating, just like chess ratings:)

Perhaps some people do that but it wouldn't explain insanity, it would just be a rough model of our own limited perception, for our own practical purposes of interaction :)

To me that's kind of like rating peoples' intelligence on a scale as well. We may do that subconciously but it doesn't accurately explain intelligence. IMO/IME/etc.

Also to add, since I've studied psychology and philosophy for a long time, I don't rate peoples' intelligence on a scale when I encounter them. I don't believe children do this either -- it's a learned cognition/behavior. Might want to consider that it's a learned behavior (that certain people will not learn) with insanity as well. A survival mechanism for adults, much like branding people as stupid and smart.

Greasedlightnin

Apr 12, 2015

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#40

It's a chess thing, people in the real world wouldn't understand.