On Dec 10, 4:49 pm, TROLL Mark wrote:

People are encouraged to think of chess players as smart.

People tend to think that trolls are stupid.
And your post shows that they are right.

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Wlod

On Dec 11, 1:45 pm, help bot wrote:

Some people couldn't spot a "troll" post if it jumped up
and introduced itself. My comments were primarily
directed at improving the troll's form,

Oh, you should always present yourself as
an example for others to follow because
you are sooo uniquely intelligent, wise,
and modest. (For those who wonder: Ligent is
a bug in the Intel's chip).

while the ones
above take the poor fellow to task for not having read
"Murray" and others. Give the poor troll a break... .

-- help bot

Even a troll's post is a good pretext to
share literature and some historical facts,
claims, conjectures...

Wlod

Mark wrote:
Chess players claim that the game teaches strategy. It does not.
It teaches memorization. No rational person would claim that
memorizing pi out to a thousand places increases your grasp of
strategy, but chess players will make that claim about a game which
is nothing more than a memorization exercise. If there was some
overarching 'strategy' that would lead to success in the game of
chess, there would be no need for opening books.

This is, indeed, a common misconception about chess.


Dave.

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of holes!