Quote from Fidel Castro:
“I strongly believe that the answers to the current problems facing Cuban society, which has, as an average, a twelfth grade of education, almost a million university graduates, and a real possibility for all its citizens to become educated without their being in any way discriminated against, require more variables for each concrete problem than those contained in a chess game. We cannot ignore one single detail; this is not an easy path to take, if the intelligence of a human being in a revolutionary society is to prevail over instinct.”
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
… a fairly miserable excuse for not being able to sort out the problems of Cuban Society.
Blog-control working at the syntax-level here? If the word ‘chess’ features, get out the Pritt stick.
Spoken like a true totalitarian,eager to control every aspect of his people’s lives.
What a pompous ass this murdering dictator is!
At the crux of a game, competitive chess is far less scientific than people on the outside think. I’ve called it a domain for the primacy of intuition, as opposed to the primacy of knowledge or proof. Indeed I say that people who aim for full knowledge or try to prove their calculations are most likely to wind up in time pressure! As an example of my contention, remember how rapidly Anand started out playing—and it wasn’t all from his “book”. Thus real-live chess supports the opposite of Castor’s last sentence.
Perhaps Castro meant “animal instinct”, but I think he meant to deprecate human intuition in the sense of “trusting oneself”, or the self-reliance aspect of capitalism. In-between trusting oneself and knowing for sure is trusting others, which is called faith in both secular and religious contexts (where the Other is God). Thus I think Castro misses the mark on both ends: even an avowedly atheist society needs to be “faith-based” in this secular sense, which per Anthony’s comment is also the opposite of totalitarian control.
Theoretically chess has no variables—it is a game of perfect information. If your position is winning you have all the information in front of you to determine the winning move(s)—there is no uncertainty! However, the information is hard to decode within a reasonable length of time—or even within a galactic timeframe. This aspect of chess brings it into the sphere of my professional field, which is called computational complexity theory. In political economics the influence of my field shows up in bounded rationality. Thus instead of even trying to cope with “every single detail”, what societies should do is understand the shape of the bounds of rationality. The shape leads to the answer of connectionism, which entails some hierarchy of control structures but makes de-central control preponderate. A connectionist motto is, “It is better to bugfix than to crusade.” The Internet is a connectionist example, and the IP protocol that mediates its operation is an example of point-to-point quantified trust.
Fidel huffed too much helium from the baloon animals. He is delerious.
Of course, now that he is retired, his brother Raul “Bill Goichberg” Castro is taking over to enrich his personal business at the expense of his loyal subjects.
Fidel is a great leader, we love and admire and respect him very much.
It would be difficult for plain American fellows to understand him, though – having get used to such low-IQ Presidents as G.W. Bush, Ronnie Reagan and Nixon…
“European pro-Cuban said…
Fidel is a great leader, we love and admire and respect him very much.
It would be difficult for plain American fellows to understand him, though – having get used to such low-IQ Presidents as G.W. Bush, Ronnie Reagan and Nixon…”
You are a certified idiot. Pick up your prize as you leave this place.
Cuba is a third world country.
I hope Castro feeds the worms soon. They have been waiting 50 years.
Actually Cuba is better that the US in many ways. As for Fidel, I’m afraid you (and your idiot right-wingers alike) need to wait long. After all, 10 US Presidents went in and out of the White House cherishing the same home… U see, they could not beat him in politics, so their only hope was his physical demise.