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Re: Notes on Puzzles

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Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 6:07 AM UTC

nicpottier wrote: post #40

Hah, what a great article. I play chess (poorly for the time spent on it) and I'm also a reasonably successful founder of a couple software companies. I find my struggle with chess is that I want to act intuitively, something that has served me well all my life in other avenues. But the board doesn't lie and if you don't think thoroughly you will get punished. I have the capacity for it, I can think thoroughly in puz…

> I find my struggle with chess is that I want to act intuitively, something that has served me well all my life in other avenues.

Same. Truth be told, I don't want to have to explicitly think at all. I want my brain to recognize the situation and steer me towards victory through entirely unconscious processes.

Re: Notes on Puzzles

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Post by Chinjut » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 2:34 PM UTC

In the described "perpetual check", why does the king not move to h2 to escape the perpetual check?

Re: Notes on Puzzles

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Post by sanderjd » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

doopdoopsoup wrote: post #10

yeahwhatever10 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disdain this pessimism that is all over the internet.

I'm curious what strikes you as pessimistic in this comment versus just being realistic about the current social structures implicit to the US (I cant speak for the rest of the world)?

I would probably say "cynical" rather than "pessimistic". I would also say that it does not actually reflect reality. Reality is also not the exact opposite of this perspective. Reality simply doesn't bear reduction to either "everything is a rigged game" or "everything is fair"; it's more complicated than that.