Day 2, Teaser Week;
Activity 3: The Greatest of All Time
Activity:
"For this activity, please imagine that you are Garry Kasparov and that you were the best chess player in the world.
On your blog, list three pros (advantages) and three cons (disadvantages) of being the GOAT of the chess world."
Garry Kasparov has been dubbed as The Greatest Chess Player of time; I, personally being quite interested and being quite involved in chess, I disagree. I believe that players such as my favourite; Vassily Ivanchuk, Rashid Nezhmetdinov and Mikhail Tal may be far more superior, however, one a different note. In this activity, if I were the best player in the world, the advantages of that are, your presence may be more intimidating, therefore it might cause some psychological advantage per se. Another advantage is the popularity, quite likely that you will earn more money than normal as well as the honour of being called G.O.A.T. Some disadvantages of being the G.O.A.T of the chess world is, knowing that you have played many games, games that are recorded, your tactics and method might be discovered, therefore, players would be possibly prepared for such moves. Losing a game would cause a big discussion and chatter, embarrassing the payer as he has been dubbed the G.O.A.T. The last disadvantage is the more popular you are the more people would hate you.
Courtesy: Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Mōrena Axle!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Mikey. I'm a member of this years Summer Learning Journey team and I'll be commenting on some of your wonderful blog post over the summer. It's so great to see that you've made a start on the teaser week activities. It's good to get some practice in before the programme officially starts on Monday.
Wow, it sounds like you know a lot about chess! How long have you been playing? I can tell that you've put a lot of thought into this post, Axle. I really enjoyed reading it. You've made some really valid points - I hadn't considered the idea that, as the best chess player in the world, every move would be scrutinised and potentially copied. I guess you'd have to keep coming up with new and improved strategies.
Congratulations again on completing your first teaser week task! Keep up the great blogging and I'll talk to you soon.
Have a great day!
Mikey :)