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A BEAUTIFUL MIND

But of course, I could never be world champion; this
is partly because chess is not important enough to
waste a valuable mind on. It's just a game; a complete waste
of time. Life is short. That's why I have given up chess
altogether. -- Help Bot

Greg Kennedy -- our embittered Indiana factory
worker and excuse-maker -- implies that he has "a valuable mind."

One can certainly debate whether chess is a waste
of time and intellectual energy (Raymond Chandler once
termed it the greatest waste of talent save for
Stalinist apologetics), but surely no one at rgcp who
recollects our Greg's varied claims would ever argue
that he is capable of wasting what he possesses not.

Its very interesting that a report, published

USATODAY.com - Billionaires bank on bridge to trump poker*

is the value that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet place on games - this one on
bridge, but they are interested in chess too. Maybe they see something
strategically important for US education and business? And who is to
gainsay this pair of billionaires?

the report says; "Now Gates and Buffett have hired Buffett's bridge partner,
Sharon Osberg, to start a program to teach contract bridge in junior high
schools. They've anted up $1 million to fund it.'

I saw elsewhere that they also tried to promote chess in NY metro area but
gave up because US Cloth-ears Federation were too ... um, tired?

Phil Innes

The Gregger once told us that he coulda been a
chess contendah except for his exile among the
cornpones of Indiana. He mighta perused Plautus,
mighta communed with Cicero, except that Indiana
forced him to read too many comic books during the 1960s.

A few years back, Greg had sufficient honesty to
acknowledge a certain vacuum between his aural
appendages. These days, he appears to be saying, a la
Kingsley Amis, I'm all right, Jack. (Whoosh -- that
gust of humid atmosphere was Greg rushing to Wiki to
look up the name of Kingsley Amis.)

He tells us, in this paraphrase of mine, "I used
to admit my intellectual shortcomings and invent
excuses for them. No longer, rgcp a-holes! Your Greg
is doing just fine headwise and always has done fine,
notwithstanding my modest efforts on this site. I
have always had a lot of brain to drain and intend to
waste no more. Hence, hasta la vista, ajedrez!"

Mama, chess made your Greg -- the guy who doesn't
agree with GM Ray Keene that taking back a move is such
a big deal -- read those comic books.

Yours, Larry Parr