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Originally posted by Sid BelzbergView Post
Just like I enjoy Wagner's music even though he was a rabid antisemite beloved by Hitler himself, I separate the art from the artist. ..
Hmmmm .... just wondering how many times has Sid posted here ranting against some scientist who disagrees with Sid's views, on the "grounds" that that scientist is some left-wing kook ... and you look up the scientist and see that s/he has excellent credentials in both academics and work experience ....
I'll say this one thing about it.... all based on Sid's many past posts exhibiting his famous ranting temper against those who disagree with him....
Sid is as objective .... as he wants to be.
Originally posted by Pargat Perrer
It's just total BS! No wonder it's on some trivial web site, "The Cochrane Library", I'm not even going to guess who these people are, right wing bigots for sure, not even worthy of mention. Did you really think you could pull that over on people? You must think everyone is an idiot!
Sid,
Did you see Pargat/Paul's demeaning of the Cochrane Library, one of the most respected sources of information in Medicine? That just illustrates the foolish ignorance he spews in his posts :-)
Originally posted by Sid BelzbergView Post
Just like I enjoy Wagner's music even though he was a rabid antisemite beloved by Hitler himself, I separate the art from the artist. ..
That seems to be a highly principled way of handling these very difficult situations. I respect you, Sid.
Hmmmm .... just wondering how many times has Sid posted here ranting against some scientist who disagrees with Sid's views, on the "grounds" that that scientist is some left-wing kook ... and you look up the scientist and see that s/he has excellent credentials in both academics and work experience ....
I'll say this one thing about it.... all based on Sid's many past posts exhibiting his famous ranting temper against those who disagree with him....
Just like I enjoy Wagner's music even though he was a rabid antisemite beloved by Hitler himself, I separate the art from the artist.
Similarly, I separate the science from the scientist, and Dr.Bhakdu is easily one of the most credentialed immunologists in the world.
By the way, when it comes to vaccine mandates Israel forced on its citizenry at the time the article was written
I agree with Dr. Bhakdi about his remarks within that context. He was charged in Germany for those remarks and found not guilty.
. What the Netanyahu government forced on its citizens was a horrible betrayal of the Israeli population.
Just like I enjoy Wagner's music even though he was a rabid antisemite beloved by Hitler himself, I separate the art from the artist.
Similarly, I separate the science from the scientist, and Dr.Bhakdi is easily one of the most credentialed immunologists in the world.
By the way, when it comes to vaccine mandates Israel forced on its citizenry at the time the article was written
I agree with Dr. Bhakdi about his remarks within that context. He was charged in Germany for those remarks and found not guilty.
. What the Netanyahu government forced on its citizens was a horrible betrayal of the Israeli population.
Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Sunday, 16th June, 2024, 07:38 AM.
I am happy to play in an OTB weekender. How much do you want to wager that my performance rating will be within 50 points up or dowm of where it is now?
You tempt me because I'm a poker player .... but no need to wager, just play in the tournament and report the results. What is your age? Bob A is about to turn 79 and I'm just guessing Bob G is early 60s.
EDIT: having a wager would only make it more likely you would do a lot of "booking up" before the event. Don't bother with that, just play in the tournament and see where you are, with no special preparations.
Also, I think a more interesting study to do would be to compare declines with age in blitz chess versus declines in age in slow classical chess. Now that might be something to wager about, if the study were done with total transparency. I would be prepared to wager that such a study would show that declines in blitz take significantly (to be defined) longer to show up than declines in slow chess.
Exactly HOW to do such a study and ensure the data is comparable ... I have no idea. I think it would be difficult and somebody would have to be paid to do it.
Last edited by Pargat Perrer; Friday, 14th June, 2024, 01:21 AM.
Sid: You are right about the rating adjustment impact, as far as I understand it.
Thanks for accepting my invitation to coffee, whether you have played in a Standard CFC-rated tournament by then, which has been rated, or not. Would enjoy meeting you.
The one condition attached to my offer is that I am out of Toronto most of the time, except winter.So I cannot commit to necessarily coming back to enjoy your company. So it may be that collection on my offer may have to be rescheduled to some time in Toronto suitable to both of us.
Nice bet......at least it is not that I have to defeat you to win.......likely Rook odds would be insufficient!
I'll buy you a coffee and a croissant of your choice at my favourite local French Bakery/Coffee Shop on the Danforth in Toronto.
If you are not in Toronto, then whenever you visit.
Beware these up & coming juniors.
It is my opinion that the 1600 level of their play today would be the level we would have called 1800 30 years ago. Many tournament players of my vintage agree.
Accept?
I don't know what the h*ll we'd talk about where we could agree on something.......maybe that the NWO/Great Reset is well in progress?
Bob A (CFC Standard 1365)
Hi Bob,
I will return home to Toronto in a few weeks and would enjoy meeting you at the Danforth for a coffee. Remember that the Fide Formula used in March 2024 to
give away rating points is .4*(2000-rating), so this formula has almost zero impact on players at or around 2000 or greater. This was designed for players below 2000; hence, despite stronger junior players, I expect my performance rating will not change much, as at least my blitz rating has not changed much.
Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Thursday, 13th June, 2024, 08:26 AM.
I'll buy you a coffee and a croissant of your choice at my favourite local French Bakery/Coffee Shop on the Danforth in Toronto.
If you are not in Toronto, then whenever you visit.
Beware these up & coming juniors.
It is my opinion that the 1600 level of their play today would be the level we would have called 1800 30 years ago. Many tournament players of my vintage agree.
Accept?
I don't know what the h*ll we'd talk about where we could agree on something.......maybe that the NWO/Great Reset is well in progress?
First, I remember in the waning days of covid, the tennis player Novak Djokevich (?) who is still to this day unvaxxed was beating all of his vaxxed opponents, and even the young superstar Alcaraz, only 20 years old I think, played him in the French Open final and lost ... by ALMOST COLLAPSING of exhaustion. He had cramps, he was almost vomiting .... at just 20 years old and in supposedly superb condition.
So at that time, it lent credence to the idea of the vax doing harm to all of the high-ranked tennis players and the non-vaxxed one rose to the top.
But now only a year later, or 2 years later I'm not sure, it's no longer the case. The younger vaxxed players are now back to their normal strength. So IF there was this influence of the vax on athletic performance, it is now disappearing.
Second .... maybe Sid the reason you only play 5 minute blitz is because you are suffering aging decline that affects not your rating, but your ability to even sit and play for 4 or 5 hours a single game. And to repeat that for 5 games over 2 days, a typical weekend tournament situation, which Bob G and Bob A seem able to handle, albeit with worse results than in the past.
I have serious doubts whether Sid could mentally and physically handle a weekend tournament like that. And if he did, I think maybe he'd see the same kind of aging decline in his results as Bob G and Bob A.
I am happy to play in an OTB weekender. How much do you want to wager that my performance rating will be within 50 points up or dowm of where it is now?
So your proposition is that an influx of highly skilled youth has captured rating points, leading to significant rating deflation of the older generation of chess players? I am not sure if online ratings are a completely different animal. Youth are more into online chess, and hence I would expect that they would float to the top of the ratings and someone like me would get beaten down to the level of a beginner based on the lurid descriptions of rating declines of Bob A and yourself. Bob A was not much different than me at around 1900.
I don't see any evidence of anything like that happening to me.
This would make an interesting study: vax versus unwaxed chess player rating evolution post-vax. It would factor out the "more skilled young chess players stealing the rating points theory" or prove your hypothesis correct if vax status makes no difference.
I have 2 reactions to this.
First, I remember in the waning days of covid, the tennis player Novak Djokevich (?) who is still to this day unvaxxed was beating all of his vaxxed opponents, and even the young superstar Alcaraz, only 20 years old I think, played him in the French Open final and lost ... by ALMOST COLLAPSING of exhaustion. He had cramps, he was almost vomiting .... at just 20 years old and in supposedly superb condition.
So at that time, it lent credence to the idea of the vax doing harm to all of the high-ranked tennis players and the non-vaxxed one rose to the top.
But now only a year later, or 2 years later I'm not sure, it's no longer the case. The younger vaxxed players are now back to their normal strength. So IF there was this influence of the vax on athletic performance, it is now disappearing.
Second .... maybe Sid the reason you only play 5 minute blitz is because you are suffering aging decline that affects not your rating, but your ability to even sit and play for 4 or 5 hours a single game. And to repeat that for 5 games over 2 days, a typical weekend tournament situation, which Bob G and Bob A seem able to handle, albeit with worse results than in the past.
I have serious doubts whether Sid could mentally and physically handle a weekend tournament like that. And if he did, I think maybe he'd see the same kind of aging decline in his results as Bob G and Bob A.
This would make an interesting study: vax versus unvaxed chess player rating evolution post-vax. It would factor out the "more skilled young chess players stealing the rating points theory" or prove your hypothesis correct if vax status makes no difference.
Wait.......aging as a factor......hmmm.......79 y.o. next month.......really hate to admit anything, you know.........rather keep it a mystery......Bob A hasn't a clue why his rating plunged like a shooting star.
Oh....OK.......yup.......with age you are not quite as alert as you used to be........seems true across the board, not just in chess.
OK....... Your "we acknowledge" is, begrudgingly, accepted on this end.
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