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09-Taga

ChessMap

Anatoly Karpov vs Viktor Korchnoi (1974)
Yugoslav Attack vs Sicilian Dragon Defense

Chess skills are most helpful when you are playing chess. However, when you climb & jump on rocks, your entire brain & body are put to work.

The board & pieces are all the material, but the METAGAME dynamic is certainly a factor in competition. The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig is about losing the battle to a weaker player who uses a novel psychology.

Feline Inscrutability vs Dogged Tenacity.
Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company

That’s me at the board, on the right, maybe 20 years ago.

14-Home

Creation

From beyond the Moon, View from Artemis I, 430,000 kilometers from Earth

Besides being mostly void and bereft of matter, the universe at large is cruel and unfriendly. If the aliens are here, it’s for the conviviality of this one planet.

apod.nasa.gov