Becoming a Chess Grandmaster

Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by drcode on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:30AM (#27959800)

He must not have had much experience with quant desks at trading firms.

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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by brudgers on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:34AM (#27959855)

Chandler did not. He died in 1959.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler

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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by uyt on Monday July 26, 2021 @01:38PM (#27962423)

I thought "advertising agency" was referencing that the best minds of our generation are thinking about how to make people click ads at google/facebook.

I guess it was always a thing even back then?

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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by tkgally on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:04PM (#27967061)

I think he meant that the best minds of his generation were devising advertising campaigns and writing advertising copy for laundry soap and canned vegetables. Advertising was more text-centric then, and talented writers like Chandler could make more money writing ads than books.

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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by petamask on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:18PM (#27964031)

Possible. But I think more likely is that it was a good frame of reference for him as he was an executive at an advertising agency for quite some time.

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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by fenomas on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:52PM (#27968426)

I don't think that's correct. Outside of writing, his career was spent in an oil company.

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Re:Becoming a Chess Grandmaster by fenomas on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:45PM (#27968392)

The quote is from 1940.

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