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@Suzianne saidHe for sure doesn't need the money, he clocks in at about 25 MILLION. I saw a bit on his IQ which is estimated at near 200.
Except that... Rapid Chess has always been a quick fix for chess players. When you go to parks in big cities that are chess hotspots you see kids and young adults playing this game. It's where it got its start. It is perhaps THE most informal category in chess. Ask any of them to go home and change before you play them and they will laugh you out of the park. Tournamen ...[text shortened]... tournament, to eschew jeans is an outrageous request. Carlsen speaks for the masses. Good for him.
Not quite up to Terrence Tao who clocks some 225. At age 3 he was teaching his 6 yo brother to count🙂 He has won just about all the Math prizes, like the Fields medal and ten others!
@Earl-of-Trumps saidI don't dare ask what the other half of your hand might be doing. 😛
[half-my-hands-clapping] 😏
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@Very-Rusty saidIt probably has the clap. Wash yourself after you shake hands.
I don't dare ask what the other half of your hand might be doing. 😛
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@moonbus saidDid you think I had any intentions of shaking hands after that comment. 😉
It probably has the clap. Wash yourself after you shake hands.
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@Very-Rusty saidI would not have the temerity to speculate as to your intentions.
Did you think I had any intentions of shaking hands after that comment. 😉
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@Very-Rusty saidI was concerned for your safety.
Then why would you say wash your hands after you shake hands, implying I would even shake hands with him??? I have no idea where his hands were! 😛 🙂
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@moonbus saidThat is kind, but you don't have to be. I may be old but I can still look after myself. 😉
I was concerned for your safety.
With a little luck and God willing I will be around for at least a decade more. 🙂
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@Very-Rusty saidKeep your wits intact, or where you can get them on 24 hours notice, and I'm sure you will.
That is kind, but you don't have to be. I may be old but I can still look after myself. 😉
With a little luck and God willing I will be around for at least a decade more. 🙂
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@moonbus saidWhat I really need to do is "learn" how to say "NO" and keep out of challenges as I was up to playing a bit over 200 on this Site alone. Only 42 of them were Clan Challenge games at the time. I am on 2 other Sites besides and Co-Captain duties on one of them, where I have to make up challenges for others, also play games myself. I have to keep my wits, once they are gone. My chess days will be over. 🙁 😢
Keep your wits intact, or where you can get them on 24 hours notice, and I'm sure you will.
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@Very-Rusty saidThe strange thing about losing one's mind is that the one who loses it seldom misses it; it's the others who do. (I speak from vicarious experience.)
What I really need to do is "learn" how to say "NO" and keep out of challenges as I was up to playing a bit over 200 on this Site alone. Only 42 of them were Clan Challenge games at the time. I am on 2 other Sites besides and Co-Captain duties on one of them, where I have to make up challenges for others, also play games myself. I have to keep my wits, once they are gone. My chess days will be over. 🙁 😢
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@moonbus saidI am sure my better half will tell me. Hopefully it will sink in when and if it happens. Dementia does run in the family, so there is a chance it could happen. I've already told her to make sure they take my Driver's license from me were that to happen.
The strange thing about losing one's mind is that the one who loses it seldom misses it; it's the others who do. (I speak from vicarious experience.)
You are right I wouldn't know or understand what was going on.
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