Win a chess game, but can't win life

Lola 2022-01-08 08:02:03

Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in 1997, and AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie last year. The unsurpassable creativity of mankind may just be that the algorithm is not large enough to crack its code. As individuals, the activities of human beings to explore the limits of intelligence may one day appear insignificant and naive in the face of artificial intelligence with great computing power. However, this kind of exploration is a clear proof of the existence of human beings with personal willpower, and is a leaf of the so-called human spirit.

As a non-chess enthusiast, the king and generals, the horseman's pawns between black and white cannot arouse my curiosity. What I am curious about is a story that has been fighting with myself on the verge of madness, winning a chess game, but not being able to win a life.

In today's prevalence of psychological research, all mental problems seem to be attributed to the native family. Bobby was born in a single-parent family. His mother did not abuse him. There is nothing wrong with having her own life. With an IQ of 187, he is addicted to chess day and night. His mother took him to see a psychiatrist, and received no useful advice. When he became an adult, he wrote to his sister, which was full of incredible delusions. By that time, he was already suffering from severe mental symptoms. It is hard to say that his madness comes from the improper education of his parents. "This game is a rabbit hole. After only four moves there's more than 300 billion options to consider. There's more 40-mobe games than ther are stars in the galaxy. So it can take you very close to the edge." It means that chess is a very easy game to drive people crazy, so Bobby Fitcher was forced out of the delusion of being persecuted.

No one seems to say that overuse of the brain can cause mental problems. One argument I often heard when I was young is that less than 1% of the brain is developed and 99% are resting. However, is this really the case? If so many brain cells don’t work, according to the principle of “use advancement and retreat”, our brain capacity should be about the same as that of a bird. Yesterday I saw a story about a child who was addicted to video games and couldn't extricate himself, so that he beat his parents and set fire to the house. Later, he was diagnosed with Asperger's disease and was sent to a mental hospital. In his anger, his father sued the game company. Most of the comments below the article condemned the parents for not being well-educated, a few condemned the game company, and no one discussed Asperger's. Asperger's disease, which is similar to autism with normal intelligence, is manifested as a social and interpersonal communication disorder. Perhaps it was because of social difficulties that he escaped into an endless intellectual activity and unintentionally became a genius.

If you are not crazy, you are not a devil. All geniuses seem to have Asperger's disease. It is said that major Wall Street companies are looking for Asperger's patients. When they are obsessed with one thing, often there is nothing around them. However, in real life, who can be free from the trivialities of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and who can really have nothing to do with other people? Therefore, geniuses are often mentally handicapped in real life, and it is not difficult to understand if they cannot lead this life.

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Pawn Sacrifice quotes

  • Bobby Fischer: [practicing chess with his coach who is a Catholic priest] I passed up having sex for this.

    Father Bill Lombardy: Passed it up for twenty years.

  • Boris Spassky: [after Bobby makes a Blunder in his first game] You don't look well Robert James.