I know Brit Nigel Short, in an unprovoked fashion, made fun of Wesley So for praying before an important chess game. As bright as the sadistic King March dude is, he seemed to erroneously assume that the Philippine superstar was praying for victory.
Was reminded of this when I played a buffoon who goes by NeedGodCom at ICC. The hopeless position you see below, arising from the Rubenstein French Defense, was when the Jesus Freak spent 50 seconds in a 3 minute blitz game!
White's Queen is pathetically out of play and his King is about to be gang raped and the preacher kept on thinking or beseeching a higher power to help him out of this suicidal position.
I asked the guy after the game if he was praying during his irrationally long think in rapid chess. The resign button would have been the Christian thing to do don't you think Nigel? I don't think believers in a benevolent God are “superstitious,” “narrow-minded idiots,” but I do think they are cowards who don't realize we are just an animal with an overdeveloped brain who will likely suffer and die with no hope for an afterlife. We have teeth that are good at helping us eat dead animals. Frat boys prefer anal sex like many other animals that grace this planet. We poop and piss very close to where our offspring pop out. Sorry GOD does fit in to this scenario GM So.
We have the same problem in Detroit with tournament players closing their eyes before a game as in an intense state of meditation. Many are concentrating very hard in the direction of an invisible, benevolent energy form of doubtful authenticity that they believe cares about the result of board game.
ReplyDeleteI mean this is happening when CoVID is converting human organs into blood and useless pathological flesh.
Some of the players have complained that what these fools call praying is a distraction to the other players. I admire Short for having the BALLS TO openly mock fools who believe in such nonsense!!!