Pretend you are an old man for the day...what you say to the person next to you on the park bench? Essay

Young man, let's take an inventory of a few of our persistent faults and individual shortcomings. Pulling down your vanity, now and then, is a good thing.

Here goes... Overkill: Often one or two too many kitchen wrist actions with ye olde coarse ground pepper grinder.

Tenacity: Reluctance to let go manifests itself sometimes in quirky ways. Such as an almost predictable penchant for doing postscripts on both paper, emails, pm's, posts as well as with callbacks on the phone. Tendency to Get Blindsided: Usually as a result of giving the benefit of the doubt once too often. Also as a consequence of impaired vision. Unrealism: Of my physical, social and mental limitations. Ignorance: Period.

"Let's get back to chess for a while, shall we? After all, chess is where this persona was born. I have MANY MANY chess achievements, but one of my GREATEST achievements was challenging a group of 1000 fellow chess players to a vote chess game and WINNING. Old man vs 1000. I am currently UNMATEABLE when it comes to computer aided chess, and I was going to PROVE it.

The rules were simple, the game was to be one day per move and you could consult any chess program or Grandmaster as to what move should be made. Each member of the team of 1000 would vote on what they thought the best move would be for move #1; the move that got the most votes would be made. I would then use my own chess program that I wrote-- CANNIBAL 37--on a souped-up, high-end, computer that was used to create animations for movies and television (Can anyone say 8-3 GHZ processors and   32 gigs of RAM?)
The "Dream Team" of 1000 had some legitimate Masters on their side as well as many people consulting RYBKA and Deep Fritz. They HAD to checkmate me to win the game. A draw would equal a WIN for me.

Now, the rules were agreed upon before the game started that I would be allowed a ONE WEEK VACATION where I did not have to make a single move because I had no one to pick up the slack when I was gone. A...