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On a separate note.
 

Let me disappoint the horny readers by the following disclaimer: this article is about chess. A person with a perverted fantasy may literally experience such a pleasure, but with THAT level of imagination one doesn't need to read articles at all.
 

Back to the point.
 

A little bit about myself. Peter Zhdanov relates to my activity as "specific attitude towards chess". Others use different terms, but I prefer Peter's wording.
 

For example, I like finding generalizations of notions that seem to be unconnected to each other: cola and meat (both are edible), school and street (both can teach you something), chess and life (can't be explained within the boundaries of a single article).
 

I particularly like this process
 

Similarly, I love finding the difference between seemingly identical notions.
 

A sniper and a person carrying a rifle, move pieces and play chess
 

It's important to keep in mind that logical constructions should have real life applications.
 

Let's consider two notions: Love and Sex.
 

All adults believe they know what Love and Sex is. Some consider them to be synonymous, while others (including me) think that there is a great difference between the meaning of these two words.
 

IMHO the key difference between Love and Sex is that in the one case a constant result is vital, while in the other it is about the quality of the result. As for me, the difference is great. And what about you?
 

Now let's switch to chess.
 

Let me start off with a simple example.
 

Once in a local park my opponent was trying to flag me one game after another (the odds was 5 minutes to 1 in his favor). Then he became unsatisfied with the results and demanded a 5 min vs 30 seconds handicap! I have simply removed the board altogether and set up the requested time control on the clock. Why use a chess board at all in this case? The one who wins on flag wins the game. I was especially delighted by observing the faces of passer-byes who were confusedly staring at two idiots, both of whom were passionately hitting the clock. Frankly speaking, the show didn't last long: a friend of mine came along, and I resigned. While I believe my behavior was right, I am still somewhat sad as I believe I could have still beaten the dude even in this "game".
 

Please keep your associations and suggestions on how this game could be named to yourself. I will act likewise.


Now a more complicated example:
 

You won two games. The first one - after a terrible blunder by your opponent in a position where you were lost; #2 - after a complicated positional struggle you won with a brilliant mating combination. Would you consider these two wins to be equal?
 

Or here is another situation (#3): your plan was deep, decisions - excellent. You got a winning position and...blundered a mate in 1 in time trouble. How would you evaluate this case?
 

Which game would you like most - 1, 2 or 3?
 

My personal favorite is 4 a game which I lost, although I played one of the best games (in terms of quality) in my life.
 

Btw, recently I expressed my gratitude for a worthy lesson at the board to my opponent after the game, and he was genuinely surprised! Now it was my turn to become surprised.
 

To sum it all up, I would like to say that, if I am not confusing things, the argument between quality and essence has been going on since the ancient Greece, when one fraction of mathematicians was claiming that two different identities (e.g. an elephant and a fly) can't be expressed by the same number - 1.


Now you know which party prevailed.
 

On the other hand, sages from the East used to say that lack of action is also an activity. 
 

Any by far not the most passive.
 

So can 0 sometimes be more than 1?
 

Or is "a dead lion worse than a living dog"?



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