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by newsdog
6109 days ago
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I haven't read the article yet, so I'll guess at it's contents then check it to see how well I did. TRAGAC because they teach every kid the country chess in school - identify the gifted - send them to chess camp - identify the more gifted - send them to chess school - keep filtering - concentrate the best of the best into more and more intense training - Botvinnik ran a chess school at the very top that trained both Kasparov, Karpov and Krammnik. Make sure the talented get their 10,000 hours in with no distractions, like having to have a job. Easy, peasy. |
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Ayn Rand wrote an essay on WTRAGAC and she pointed out chess was a very CAPITALISTIC game. Why?
In chess, you own all your own pieces. Just about the only private property in the USSR. No Central Committee or Five Year Plan can tell you how to place your rook. At no time will your rook ever be nationalized by the state just when you need it the most.
Second, only you get to push your pieces. It is NOT collectivized.
Third, you are rewarded for being strong in a non socialist manner. You and the other guy start out with the same number of pieces, soon the stronger player has more. They don't NEED more, being stronger, but, as in life in the West, the rich get richer!
Rand argued that the TRAGAC because they used it to escape an unnatural Socialist system.