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That's awesome, I wish I got into chess earlier. I don't aspire to get titled but if I had started chess earlier I would have striven for a title. If I thought a GM title was achievable I would have given everything to get it. It is still possible but my goal with chess was to get 2000 rating just. Now I just love it, I can sit and play games all day and it creates some sort of comfort for me. When I put the pieces out and everything works in almost perfect symbiosis, it's beautiful and relaxing. Even getting beat by beautiful plays is nice
I switched mainly because my coach thought I was too lazy to keep up with opening theory and it changes pretty frequently with the Queen's Gambit as the GM games include it often.
Me too, I think it's a poor choice! Wasted tempos on the fianchetto and white will almost always coordinate the dark squared bishop and queen to kick black's Dark squared bishop out of that g7 square. Plus I like when I get the d4, e4 and f4 pawn out there. The f pawn makes my king safety look weak but he has no real threats.
It is playable on the GM level but they have a totally different understanding of the game.
I don't know if he went crazy. Paranoid about the USSR? Yeah, I would be too, that was back when Russia was USSR. Relations between USSR and USA were under heavy tensions and chess was being used as a political tool. If I were Fischer, I would be scared shit-less too. Plus, he had no family of friends. Fischer against the world.
I will say this, chess players and mathematicians are some of the most logical and analytical people in this world. Also they have some of the highest IQs. If they say they see something that we can't understand. Take a note of it!
I know what you mean, I have a lot of time on my hands now but it won't always be that way.
Chess is such a different game now-a-days! AI and neural networks has elevated chess to another level! Have you seen some of the newer games? I can post a game or two of the AI games that have been making headlines.
I like Kasparov a lot, I was thinking about getting a set from one of the many Kasparov vs Karpov matches. I want a really nice "Soviet" set. I am part Cuban so maybe a Capablanca set would be nice too. Do you have any favorite chess players? Tal, Morphy, Karpov, Kasparov, Fischer?
