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General Discussion / Re: Games.
« on: January 09, 2024, 07:27:41 am »
While many people equate playing chess or Go with having a high intelligence that might only apply to those games.
I know a brilliant engineer who is knowledgeable about a good many things but he confessed to me that he never learned how to play chess or Go. His pursuits were in math and engineering, not gaming. His games were figuring out the structural loading of bridges and other structures and how their members would be in compression or tension, etc., but chess was as foreign to him as a foreign language might be to us.
We all have our games that we wrestle with in our minds.
Your hovercraft was pretty amazing and that was many years ago. It no doubt took a lot of mental gymnastics to figure out everything.
We all play our games...some with people and some with things. Either way, it is part of the Game of Life!!
Play it well, you only get one chance!
I know a brilliant engineer who is knowledgeable about a good many things but he confessed to me that he never learned how to play chess or Go. His pursuits were in math and engineering, not gaming. His games were figuring out the structural loading of bridges and other structures and how their members would be in compression or tension, etc., but chess was as foreign to him as a foreign language might be to us.
We all have our games that we wrestle with in our minds.
Your hovercraft was pretty amazing and that was many years ago. It no doubt took a lot of mental gymnastics to figure out everything.
We all play our games...some with people and some with things. Either way, it is part of the Game of Life!!
Play it well, you only get one chance!