Deep Brain Stimulation For Parkinson's and The Game Of Chess

In the past day I've noticed that my views for  yesterday have  gone to the highest views for this particular blog.  It  doesn't really surprise me because people really want to know how Parkinson's can affect the thinking processes.  Now it is clearly evident that no candidate should be approved for a deep brain operation afflicted with Parkinson's if they will be worsened by such  an operation or surgery as examined by a neurologist and evaluated.  The   first thing I did as a result of my denial for approval for DBS was to google cognizant tests for patients with Parkinson's.  My father had Parkinson's too when he past his eightieth birthday but  he didn't even know.  I'm trying to digest this news very seriously.  I also remain in a series of the last sixteen games of chess in a  slump but I'm probably playing better players having gone to a social category where I am more willing to play anyone with any rating and beat them on a good day.  The hard cold facts that my ratings have fallen to a near 1000 chess rating but from there I usually can take it up to 1200 and beyond.  Pretty boring stuff for those non playing chess players I'd say.  My other blog called Journalism Reports might have more mass appeal since it involves the news generally and not just the news of my personal experiences of online chess.  A very smart and gifted man by the name of Marty Nemko has directed and advised me to commence with these blogs and if it were not for him I would never have begun such an endeavor.

Why I Can Teach Chess

The impetus is there.  I wrote about my experiences of online chess now for those of you who want to take up on it then it is for you to make the decision.  If you are committed to the game you will learn it.  One of my big biggest thrills in chess are the admirers of chess who spot me playing the game with the dead serious look upon my face and the faces  of my opponent each player prepared to crush the other and annihilate the opposition.  One admirer of the game  who was fascinated by the aura of the players and the pieces which layer before the contestants I recalled was name Sylvia who played like the average run of the mill family member with mother with son kind of family game.  But where I was playing involved my reputation among my fellow coworkers and to display these chess pieces openly in broad view of my fellow working class people or shall I name them  comrades(no they were not communists) was a statement I was making which indicated my nerves and reputation was at stake and I would not lose willingly my every intention was to win after all I was coached by one best competitors in the field of football namely Joe Montana and my question to him is what goes on in his mind when he knows his team his behind and he has just minutes or less maybe just seconds to turn the game around for a win.  His answer which I had never heard before was that if you hate losing more than you like winning….his  coaching never made me a champion like he was but his advice made me try my best to my ability even though I fell way short of winning at times.  Again those were his words which clung to me to this day If You Hate Losing More Than You Like Winning…for me to be one of the chess playing guys  was important rather than be the fool or the loser but I made myself quite clear I did not want to lose in any shape, form or way.  Sylvia knew very well that I had every intention to try my best and be all that I could be.  The pressure was not on me to win when I was showing her the moves and how to move.  When she realized she made one move better than mine to move into checkmate as instructed her to do she suddenly went  mad and announced to everyone that she had won she had won and I saw her as dead serious she wasn't joking.   For her to win in chess was better  than winning the Super Lottery.   With this in mind I didn't take the lost so bad and in fact I thought this was my best lost for I had become at that time the greatest teacher of chess making her realize she could beat such a dead serious chess player as myself.  I never realized how I  could be so good!