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Of course a lot of those players have in turn gone on to gambling and hedge funds.
When I interned at a prop trading firm for a summer, I noticed a few copies of Meddling Mage lying around on an unused desk. Turns out that the guy who designed the card (as a reward for winning the Magic Invitational) had previously worked there.
Is there some skill that links chess to this? Seems to improbable for a coincidence
Carlsen isn't a chess genius. He's a genius who plays chess. The guy can recall chess positions from games he played as a teenager. (I played a few games of chess today morning and I can barely remember the openings I played!)
Is there some skill that links chess to this? Seems to improbable for a coincidence
Carlsen isn't a chess genius. He's a genius who plays chess. The guy can recall chess positions from games he played as a teenager. (I played a few games of chess today morning and I can barely remember the openings I played!)
Is there some skill that links chess to this? Seems to improbable for a coincidence
Either chess is harder than fantasy and the top 100K players should all be bots, or fantasy is harder than chess and so why is Carlsen and others wasting time on professional chess?
Wow, that really obliterates two major assumptions I had about chess (1) that you can't win without 100% dedication to chess (2) that the skills are highly domain specific and not transferable.
I wonder how Messi would do on Fantasy Chess League.