Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Magnus Carlsen is the Justin Bieber of Chess

I had this amusing thought and had to put it on a web-log.

I still suck at chess.

I definitely recognized one of the problems I ran into this morning. And I recognized that I recognized it a couple years ago and got it right then. However, I did not remember the solution this time, only the vague method, but couldn't quite calculate the precise method. I'm also running into a lot of problems where I see all the ideas and motifs, but can't quite assemble them in the right order to make the problem work. I'm giving up after about 5-10 minutes because they aren't yet the difficulty that warrants half an hour and I'm not yet back to the level where taking longer is worthwhile.

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