Performance

Everything it seems is related to performance. Ratings believe it or not do count. The very survival of this blog is dependent upon ratings I may think it is good enough but if the viewing audience or readers disagree with me or those with authority over this content find it not in line with what is productive I'm out of here. It's only common sense. Correct me if I am wrong but people just don't want to read about losers and that is not what I'm about. If I were in a perpetual slump the charts would read as a line in a slash going no where but down. An exception to the rule is JD Salinger a popular novel about a college student named Holden Caufield a failing student headed nowhere but the mental ward. As time moves onward the technology becomes more advanced and those with older minds get weeded out. Take the number one rated chess player in the world still rated number one after all the years I've mentioned his name in this chess blog Magnus Carlsen although he hasn't achieved the status of a legend because his name hasn't been around long enough. The very young players have access to computers which supply them with the right information to succeed the very data they need to arm themselves with. My point is that chess is so intensely skilled as a game that it takes powerful computers to measure performance and rate those who are in the elite. We ordinary people can participate but don't we become in awe of those players who rate and perform. Having met the highly rated movie and television actor Clint Eastwood on the air on the radio (yes I am a name dropper)if I could suggest to him that unlike all the other major games we see in sports chess should reign as the game of intelligence. I'd have Clint Eastwood sitting at a table looking down at a chess board telling his opponent to go ahead make his day and does his opponent feel lucky? This would be an old line for an emerging game that just won't fade away just you wait for the screaming headlines or the Internet stories of major proportions and the unmentionables is thrust before our very eyes and is there intelligent life on other planets besides earth? They the aliens would have to make my day and make a move for when I'm on my game I am on my game I'm in the zone I can do no wrong give me Bobby Fischer bring him back and make him play his best game and I can only try my best to crush him. Today I did that just about having played the second highest rated chess player to oppose me rated 1425 he did beat me but I played my best game took him to the distance like from the movie Rocky One I was only one move away from check mating him I pushed him to the limit he would not play me a second game I felt he fled because he feared me because I had the capability to thrash him the next game and how would he look when a low rated chess player so much lower than she would look? Yes correction my opponent was a female who had been on a ten game winning streak I checked her profile. Man woman or beast when I am ready to play I will play.