The Mental Test

Oh this is just fine. And now I find out that a few people who know me from my past and even now have thought of me as....well.... I won't feed their fire. I do know I'm not the best chess player there is but I am impressed by Magnus Larsen the top chess player and his attitude. People who play chess are thought of as being intelligent a human characteristic. It is true I can play the game and I ran into a legend of the game through another source of a social out let which is the game of tennis even more competitive than chess in terms of those who follow the game of tennis vs chess. I've been a competitor in both these games more or less on a social level enough to know that one should not be all consumed and allowed their inner soul or any soul to be devoured. These are just games as I've been told in the course of my games playing days; I shall consume and enjoy the games for what they are the games will not consume me. I've never met Bobby Fischer but I did meet Walter Browne a competitor of Bobby Fischer in the top echelon in the field of chess. Whether Bobby Fischer was truly mentally ill toward the end of his life in my opinion remains a question but I do know it didn't look good for him toward the end of his life. He did have issues to settle with despite his great ability to take the game of chess and bring it to the highest level during the cold war when Russia and the United States faced off each other and rather destroying each other in a nuclear war the two countries decided to settle the matter by playing chess. Imagine that. There I just said it and oh my gosh I must be mentally ill myself for even suggesting such an ideal. Is there any kind of logic to what I just said? Ladies and gentlemen of the court you are the judges and you will decide not I or my critics. I do concede this blog called Nerves Galore has eaten away at me caused me grief and torment but if you read my other blog called It Never Takes A Genius you will see that I have leveled out became more balanced and found a newer and better meaning to life rather than playing chess at all costs to win and do nothing but win. Winning is well and just fine but not at all cost if a player thinks like this truly he will go insane. I spoke to the great American champion on the air both of them in fact one was John McEnroe the tennis champion and then Joe Montana the great football star of the Forty Niners . I will address their answers in this following blog but first a word from my sponsors.