Re: [tlug] Chess is dead (OT)

[Bruno Raoult <braoult@example.com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour
<benjamin@example.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2014 11:32:04 +0200
> Bruno Raoult <braoult@example.com> wrote:
>
>> I am not sure to understand: Checkers is solved for a long time (we
>> know the result from first move).
>
> So sorry, I was unclear in my reasoning. What I mean to say was that until your brain has mastered the solution to a game, your brain still has something to gain by playing it, because if you can't deduce the solution unaided, you still have something to learn.
>
> It's applicable on most things. If you can't swim a kilometre, you definitely still have something to gain honing your body to cross that distance. The fact that other people have already done this is quite beside the point.

We are going more and more out of topic, but I agree with you...
However, why do not you play checkers today, or why did you loose some interest?

br.

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