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Einstein as a chess player
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"Emanuel Lasker was undoubtedly one of the most interesting people I came to know in my later years. ... I am not a chess expert and therefore not in a position to marvel at the force of mind revealed in his greatest intellectual achievement - in the field of chess. I must even confess that the struggle for power and the competitive spirit expressed in the form of an ingenious game have always been repugnant to me. I met Emanuel Lasker at the house of my old friend, Alexander Moszkowski, and came to know him well in the course of many walks in which we exchanged opinions about the most varied questions. ... it seemed to me that chess was more a profession for him than the real goal of his life. ... the chess playing of a master ties him to the game, fetters his mind and shapes it to a certain extent so that his internal freedom and ease, no matter how strong he is, must inevitably be affected. In our conversations and in the reading of his philosophical books, I always had that feeling. ... I liked Lasker's immovable independence, a rare human attribute, in which respect almost all, including intelligent people, are mediocrities. ... I am thankful for the hours of conversation which this ever striving, independent, simple man granted me." - Einstein (1952)
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Good naration! ! !
DENVER
Happy Einstein's Birthday 3/14/2020 . . .
Infidel-Catto wrote:
Einstein versus Fischer could have been the real match of the century.
In the Manhattan project; speaking of which, Einstein did reportedly play a game with Oppenheimer, which he apparently won. Hence, there is the possibility that Oppenheimer could be in a rage, with his atomic bomb dominance and all.
He wasn't a good chess player. . .
I probably could have won a game from him . . .
But people say many quotes he supposedly said . . .
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