Rise_UIED can beat Kasparov in a game of chess like a basketball team full of teenagers could beat the NBA champions. It's theoretically possible, but that doesn't mean it's realistic to harbour any hope of it happening. I don't believe he was trying to echo your point regarding the comparison to other sports, but if he was than it doesn't work.
I for one do play better with the Black pieces. The first-move advantage does nothing for me, this is on based on my personal statistics. So in a hypothetical scenario where I would have to play K. in a game of life and death, I would prefer the black side, and I'm surely not the only one. Not trying to argue with you on this issue, Chessty, just putting that out there.
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I agree that practically it might not be realizable to beat someone who is that much of a better player than you, but at least it's possible. There are lots of games where a player with 1500 has beaten 2500 GMs. Also in chess physical characteristics don't play a role in one's chances. In other sports they do. So the NBA team would have players who have trained harder and are stronger so they have an advantage against young men. In chess Carlsen drew Kasparov when he was 9 or something.
I agree that practically it might not be realizable to beat someone who is that much of a better player than you, but at least it's possible. There are lots of games where a player with 1500 has beaten 2500 GMs. Also in chess physical characteristics don't play a role in one's chances. In other sports they do. So the NBA team would have players who have trained harder and are stronger so they have an advantage against young men. In chess Carlsen drew Kasparov when he was 9 or something.
@rise_UIED if the only objective is not to lose, then it's probably easier to play for a draw as white, because you start with some notional advantage. Presumably black would be more eager to accept the draw than usual.
My favorite part of chess is when I am able to draw my opponent into a losing attack, where I am squeezed and pressed for maybe 20-30 moves, knowing the whole time that I can never be mated but always having to think a bit deeply to make sure I don't blunder my defense, all the while taking note of the winning attack that will follow as soon as I am no longer forced to defend. Watching the game swing drastically from what appears to be an almost lost position at face value into a completely crushing attack that is indefensible...for me, that is the best!
I like to take my opponent's queen with a bishop or a knight; or win when I don't have my queen and my opponent's have it.
"That both sides start with an equal chance is, in any empirical sense, not true, and in the philosophical sense that you are claiming, I disagree whole heartedly that basketball or any other sport is any different." -Chestymcbiggins
If you bring philosophy into it, then I see a chess game as an exercise in Existentialism. Life is what we make of it, and so is a chess game. The empirical statistic that favors white has little do to with the outcome of a game, especially when you aren't a grandmaster.
I don't think basketball is a fair analogy to chess. In chess, both sides have the same position and same pieces, but in basketball the players are all unique individuals, so one team is not completely equal to the other team.
In chess both sides are equal, and the game plays out depending solely on each move by each player. Every move changes the game, and holds a lot of weight.
If you bring philosophy into it, then I see a chess game as an exercise in Existentialism. Life is what we make of it, and so is a chess game. The empirical statistic that favors white has little do to with the outcome of a game, especially when you aren't a grandmaster.
I don't think basketball is a fair analogy to chess. In chess, both sides have the same position and same pieces, but in basketball the players are all unique individuals, so one team is not completely equal to the other team.
In chess both sides are equal, and the game plays out depending solely on each move by each player. Every move changes the game, and holds a lot of weight.
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