Fischer was right. Chess is dead. As it turns out, it passed away a few years after its killer, the internet, was born.

A clock no longer serves as time control to simply regulate reasonable brevity (vs. all day.) The time is no longer used to invest in constructive play. The pieces are frantically maneuvered with the objective of ''survivability', before the clock can then deem the 'winner'- frequently of inferior board position.

Since chess doesn't exist any more, I am looking seriously at tic tac toe as a more viable intellectual pursuit.

My UNQUESTIONABLY most entertaining experience in my recent re-entry to internet chess was in a forum on this server in which a player very understandably poses why it is so difficult to match to a reasonable time control here. One of his first respondents was Mr. Einstein claiming "People don't wanna sit in front of a computer for hours dude!" My response: They don't?! You already do! Your log shows you just played 40 games in the same extended amount of time, falsely inflating your ego with your falsely inflated rating and never accomplished anything the whole time!!! LMAO. It was hilarious.

HebrewWildChild