Chess Player Most people learn to read before they learn to play chess, but for me chess was the first thing I was introduced to. My father first taught me the basics of chess in my birth place: Massachusetts. Short after my family and I moved to Cary, North Carolina where I live today. Here I would play chess for hours on end with nothing else to worry about. Studying chess, I would hone my skills and travel to tournaments on a regular basis during the weekends. Chess was my life, I would play upwards of five hours of chess a day with no school to worry about. All my effort led me to tie for first in nationals. Unfortunately, I was only in Kindergarten when this happened, now I have the burdens of school, friends, and my future to worry about. However, I still play chess as hobby and have improved tremendously since then. My love for chess grew as I got older, though I was not training as seriously, I started to appreciate chess and the strategy behind the game. Discovering similarities between a simple game and my complex life, chess began to define me as a person. …show more content…
Because of the logic and `strategy required behind the game, I started to solve my real-life problems pragmatically and logically without emotion. Though this can harm me in my debate career by making me less persuasive or on the robotics team by being too realistic, I believe it is the most efficient and best way to think the world. Chess has taught that there are multiple different “lines” or paths you can take in life and it is up to you to decide which one is going to give you the best outcome. One of the more aspects in chess is to look ahead past one move, applying that to life, I believe that I cannot only look at what will happen now, but anything that could happen in the future. Finally, chess has taught me to take risk in life. Like sacrificing a piece in chess, I sometimes have to take a risk to truly earn great
Smarter than You Think starts out with a cautionary tale of how in 1997 world chess champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by Deep Blue, an I.B.M. supercomputer. This was a considered a milestone in artificial intelligence. If a computer could easily defeat a chess champion, what would happen to the game and its players? A year after Kasparov was defeated by the program he decided to see what would happen when a computer and person were paired up. He called this collaboration the centaur; A hybrid consisting of the algorithms and history logs of chess as well as the brain to “analyze their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses, as well as their moods.” ...
And the skills we try to learn can be less strenuous to obtain. He takes us back to kasparov and how when he was coming about in the soviet union only a few kids that showed promise could get lessons from a grand master and then be able to access records to famous chess games. Clive Thompson considers the fact that computers have leveled the playing field. Now any kid anywhere in the world that has access to the internet can learn more about chess games. Playing an artificial opponent made the game a little faster and the instincts of a player became fast as well. A player could also experiment and see what the outcome of different moves could be. This also means grandmaster players are being produced at a much younger age than ever before. He makes a reference to grand master Bobby Fischer who became a grand master at age fifteen. He does this to show how with the emergence of computers new grand masters are getting younger and younger. Such as Sergey Karjakin who became grand master in two thousand and two at the age of twelve. This clearly shows how computers speed up the learning
Richard Connells “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story which illustrates that calm analytical thinking can increase your odds of survival and controlling panic.
My dad would always tell me it’s not good to play video games, because they cannot help you, but baseball can help you succeed in life. This really changed my view on what baseball potentially has. I became more dedicated and committed to the sport, Baseball. I never played any other sport, and I started progressively doing more baseball each year. I have tried extremely hard to keep playing baseball, because it will come to an end at some point, but hopefully it will be later in my life instead of sooner.
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...ss, which is difficult and requires strategy to succeed. This would fit in with Borges struggle to succeed in his work. In addition, Borges states that, “No one could any longer describe the forgotten prize, but it was rumored that it was enormous and perhaps infinite” (Borges 166). This could be referring to the prize of life. Many speak of life as being grand, yet no one actually knows whether life on Earth is a prize or not. It goes on to say that Hladik does “not remember the chessmen or the rules of chess” (Borges 166). In other words, Borges no longer remembers how to live his own life. Borges was first introduced to the game of chess by his father who “presented him with mathematical theories and philosophical puzzles” (Sickels 4) while teaching him how to become a better chess player. Perhaps this was Borges’ first encounter with the philosophy of life.
In “Rules of the Game,” the main character, Waverly Jong, is a typical seven-year-old girl living in Chinatown, San Francisco. Being round and dynamic, there is much to Waverly. As one reads further into the exposition though, she learns to play chess with her brother, Vincent. Readers can see more of a complex character when Waverly discovers chess: “I discovered that for the whole game one must gather invisible strengths and see the endgame before the game begins” (Tan 1113). This shows readers that as she learns more about the game of chess, the more she becomes her own person, showing the theme of independence. In the beginning though, Waverly is very dependant on her mother and family, but when she plays chess, she be comes more of an American than just Chinese. Evidence of this can be seen when Waverly explains her status in the community: “I was still some 429 points away from grand-master status, but I was touted as the Great American Hope, a child pr...
I have always been involved in sports in some way or another. I was team captain in every sport imaginable in elementary school. Junior high I continued to be involved in sports, but it wasn't until high school started that I really got into it. I played soccer, softball and basketball at Rogers High School. I particularly loved soccer. Just playing it gave me a rush I had never felt before. Also knowing that this sport took a lot of hard work and dedication gave me a sense of satisfaction, because I knew that I put everything I had into it. Putting a lot of dedication and hard work into something may prove to be useful in the future.
... soon as there is a playing field where rules should be followed and behaviors rationalized, Game Theory can create the best competitive moves.
You need to be brought up in the right environment, exposed to the way the game works, and the correct technique involved. In Tigers case his father showed him how to play from the age of two. In the case of a businessmen, his father might have told him about the stock market etc also from a young age, this way their education begins early.
I have throughout my whole life been playing sports. I still play basketball competitively and now it’s at the university level. Basketball though was not my first love when it came to playing sports. It has though become my true focus since junior high school. Coming from Canada everybody plays hockey. Its almost as if as soon as you learn to walk you learn how to skate. Whether it is at the recreation centre or at the shinny rink around the corner everyone plays. Eventually I abandoned hockey to play basketball which I have done so for the last twelve years of my life and hopefully a few more years into the future.
Some said it maybe cliché to have your childhood experiences as your points to derive you to plan your future. Well for me it is never an ending possibilities to have a childhood experienced that will determine you to get what you really want. From an early age I have always been deeply interested in gaming. I was the only girl in the family that really into games and computer systems. I can always remember the feeling of wanting to know just how the games were developed and design, how the console and system works and what else they could do.
One of the earliest memories I have of my father is when he would take me to the park and we would play baseball. My father was eager to teach me everything he knew about the game, and I was eager to learn. He took it easy on me at first, allowing me to overcome my fear of being hit by the ball. Each time we went back to the park he would throw the ball a little harder. It was not long before I could catch almost anything he threw at me. My father also used his knowledge of the game to teach me to hit a baseball. Eventually, I was skilled enough to play any position on a baseball team.
...ountries, then, result in war? If life were merely a contest with fate, then should we not think before we act? Though some may argue that the proper time to reflect is before acting, I have learned from experience that, more times than not, this is not the best approach. The ability to act on instinct is crucial to success, in many situations. During an earthquake, for instance, one must quickly respond in whichever ways necessary to protect themselves, as well as their loved ones. No matter how prepared, or trained, one may be, there is no way to predict what the essential motions should be taken in the time of an emergency. Although we are born with some instincts, other, more specified, ones can be developed through experience and training. In any situation instincts can be good or bad in the outcome, but this is the foundation of how we learn: experience.
For the first several years of my life, I was just like any other child; I achieved all the typical developmental milestones, cultivated new interests, made friends, and began to familiarize myself with the world around me. By the time I started elementary school, I was already enrolled in theater classes, ballet lessons, and a youth soccer league. It was also during these tender years that I began to develop an interest in learning, beyond that of most other children my age.