Who's Big Mama of Modern Chess Player?

Mate, why don't you try your fellow countryman John Fowles' Magus?

I've read it twice (so far)

Look what New York Times says about it (and I fully agree with it)

""The Magus" is a stunner, magnificent in ambition, supple and gorgeous in execution. It fits no neat category; it is at once a pyrotechnical extravaganza, a wild, hilarious charade, a dynamo of suspense and horror, a profoundly serious probing into the nature of moral consciousness, a dizzying, electrifying chase through the labyrinth of the soul, an allegorical romance, a sophisticated account of modern love, a ghost story that will send shivers racing down the spine. Lush, compulsive, richly inventive, eerie, provocative, impossibly theatrical--it is, in spite of itself, convincing. It is, in fact, a trick ("magus" means magician or conjurer)--a trick about conviction. The stupefying thing is that Mr. Fowles has pulled it off. The book seems to have its own energy; it reverberates in the mind."

Couldn't agree more. 

The fact is, thinking is hardest thing there is, and when facing a choice we typically prefer the path of least resistance, the shortcut, and delegate our decision to some supreme leader, infallible religious figure, handy iPhone, chess engine, or any sort of Big Mama in showing a strong tendency of worshiping them.

They, in turn, will ventriloquize the divine and tell us what to do.

Thanks for checking in, RedGirlZ.

Liked that, a "robotic Earthling" Thanks @woollensock

and in order not to become one, we shouldn't let any Big Mama pull wool over our eyes

we seem sort of relatives of the feline species, so mutual understanding somehow goes a long way, doesn't it

Well, I on't know about you guys, but I am posting my Big Mama photo:

What generation of engines is your Big Mama?

Y'always listening to her suggested moves of action in chess and elsewhere? 

No big mama for me. I analyze on my own.

Yes, I know, your Big Mama is human, she’s your human “engine”.

Yo, my roaring friend. Just remembered that i have also  read the works of Conan Doyle - Victorian detective stories are great!! and the complete works of Shakespeare. Now I can sound a little more educated.  Check this out - my favourite performance of my favourite piece of non-chess writing.

I second RP's recommendation on The Magus.  Definitely a stunner, and a bit of a head-scratcher, in a puzzling sort of way.  A bit like chess, I guess.  Gets deep, real quick.  

Yes, Ron, a stunner, a stun gun, a knockout!

Another bad idea to early retire? Fischerandom as 9LX?

We should show a little bit more respect to the inventor of new chess variant that is showing absolute superiority over the dead-horse-classical with its pervert engines' and theoretical preps. Watched Champs Showdown yesterday?