How To Think About Chess

Re:How To Think About Chess by derefr on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:55PM (#9307212)

I think the thing trying to be pointed out here is that "retirement" is not inside what most people consider to be the game of a career. When you quit your last job, your career is over; that is the checkmate moment.

Retirement, on the other hand, is the equivalent of the time between games (or after you quit playing games) when you have a static ranking from your previous play (maybe you're a retired world champion, say), that other people treat as a milestone in their own development—something to reach or to pass.

Now, if you said life, then sure, the endgame phase of that is retirement. But the early-game phase of that is when your parents are providing for you, and only extreme incompetence (or genetic bad luck) can cause you to "lose."

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Re:How To Think About Chess by ryanx435 on Saturday April 04, 2015 @11:15AM (#9321038)

again, we're arguing in circles because we are conceptualizing the analogies differently. our definitions of "career" are different.

oh well.

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Re:How To Think About Chess by mod on Monday April 06, 2015 @01:12PM (#9329230)

ca·reer kəˈrir/ noun 1. an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.

There really aren't different definitions. It's a "work life", it doesn't include retirement.

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