Monday, July 25, 2005
I Play Chess Because . . .
. . . like this blog, it's all me. I mean if you win, every good thing about that goes to you. Money, the congrats, bragging rights, whatever. It's the bragging rights I like! The flipside is if you lose, then every bad thing about that you suffer. But at least you really only have yourself to blame. And my God it hurts!
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Your focus seems to be on outcomes from the chess battle..e.g bragging rights etc, and yet the game itself is so long that it is hard to believe that you are in it for the outcomes. More likely that you enjoy the ebb and flow, the prolonged tension, the risk of defeat after such an investment of time, the challenge of calculation and concentration.
If you were in it for the bragging rights. outcomes, you would choose something with a shorter time-frame like 'I spy with my little eye something starting with X'.
The bragging rights are important because you get good trash-talk mileage out of them.
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