Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] study of incompetence
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:00:21 -0400
References: <200007211856.LAA21304@riverside.haddockseyes.com>
 
There was once a chess grandmaster who lamented that while at one point in
his career he could calculate all of the moves to mate,  now, he could only
calculate all of the moves to within one of checkmate.

Dan C.

At 12:51 PM 22-07-00 -0700, Dan Post wrote:
>Brian-
>Brilliant post! This is so true in many situations! I took degrees in
>psychology, and sociology, supposedly HAD an IQ of 148, or at least high
>enough to get into Mensa ( I used to be fast, but now I am just half
>fast...--- [snip]
In reply to: Message from Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> ([Leica] study of incompetence)