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#42
Backgammon is a game of half skill and half chance.

It never outshine chess nor poker.
#43
@FC-in-the-UK
@Long_Quach having fun having this little discussion with yourself?

@FC-in-the-UK
You got a better idea of improving chess?
Let's hear it.

I want to take this opportunity to say something.

#1. I wish I had all the time in the world, but I don't. I wish I could read Catherine the Great's diary. But I don't have time. I am 50 years old. I read about 150 books, with about 150 more books to go, and I don't have time to learn and to be wiser.

Not having more time, I can use my intelligence. I call it "fractal thinking". When you take a small thing and extrapolate it to a large thing. Perhaps that is the best form of transmission of knowledge, using "fractal thinking. That is what oral traditions are. (You can't tell a long ass story). That is what movies are.

In the movie Catherine the Great, starring Catherine Zeta Jones (that's funny). The ones that are ruled always want to tear down the ruler. (I read that bit glancing in Catherine the Great's diary). In the movie, Catherine said something like, "You always want to tear down the current structure, but what do you replace it with? What do you BUILD up instead?

Then she orders the rebels' leader head to be chopped off.

Watch the movie.

Idiots are always yapping yapping about the one who is SPEAKING. That is the root meaning of the word DICT-ATOR. "dict" to speak as in diction, dictionary, dictation. "dictator" literally means speak-er.

Let the speak-er speak. If you don't have anything to say, shut the fuck up!

That is why dictators go around chopping heads. All you idiots want to tear down, but what do YOU BUILD UP instead?

That's a line from the movie. I NEVER FORGOT THAT LINE.
#45
I discovered ballet watching a local ballet school performances.

Katherine the Great founded the Bolshoi Theatre.

EVERY ballet school in America is founded by a RUSSIAN (practically).

And ballet is the best form of dance. Break dancing came along and says it is better. Then the break dancing fad came and went. And there some break dancing performances are done to the music and story of THE NUTCRACKER by Tchaikovsky.

There is a REASON why Russians like Chess and Ballet.

If YOU think you can do better, go right ahead. NOBODY is stopping you. See if you can invent a dance form better than ballet.

(Don't even try fools. Ballet has its origin in fencing, that's life and death stuff. Ballet looks like "wax on, wax off", but it is actually Kàrátê [I have to pronounce it correct and comically like Ryan Reynolds said in the movie Blade Trinity, "What are you going to do when we win the war against the vampires? Teach "Kàrátê" at the Y (YMCA)?])

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