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In a lengthy essay (with the same title) I pondered why innovators, explorers and inventors are ready to face the hostility and segregation imposed on them by the outside world. They get this ’reward’ for work done to the benefit of others, and they might even be burnt as heretics just because they are ahead of their own time. History hasn’t seen too many scientists or artists who created something new by daringly throwing away (or improving on) tradition and dogmas AND made fortunes or were recognised authorities in their own time. Galilei, for example, just about managed to avoid the ’sacred’ fire of Inquisition by withdrawing his teachings, but now he is doing well, thanks. After 400 years, the Catholic Church resigned to the fact that it’s the Earth that revolves around the Sun, and not vice versa. Even the clergy admits now that he was right. A miracle indeed! Hallelujah!
Well, why then? What motivates these people? If they were clever enough to make a great discovery, they are obviously also clever enough not to cherish illusions of celebration and fame. Let me tell you: it is the Giant Third that makes them do it. God Himself! He selects them, endows them with extraordinary abilities, sends them down to Earth, and never lets them get rid of their mission, whatever happens. As a great Hungarian poet János Arany put it: ’ The award of my mission / Burns like Nessus’ blood’. When I meet my Lord, I will ask Him why He chose me to discover the theorem that is to renew the whole science of chess: BLACK IS OK!? And why did so many wonderful chess thinkers simply pass by it? After all, it could even have been discovered from sheer practical need, asking an obvious question: ‘Is it OK that BLACK is beaten so badly?’ Shouldn’t we do something against it? Not just sheepishly wait for tomorrow’s White game? White to move and BLACK to suffer!? Only collective intellectual laziness could raise an empty dogma like this to the level of axiom! People do sometimes get knocked out by diseases, sorrows, all kinds of hardships. We must simply endure it. But the fact that tens of millions only want to somehow ’survive’ EVERY SECOND DAY is – forgive me - INSTITUTIONALISED IDIOCY. The FIDE K.O. World Championship final of 2004 saw White beat BLACK 4-0 in serious games (with 2 draws). IS IT NORMAL?? Well, if it is, then I am an idiot. (Which I may be, but not because of this.)
I am well aware that I won’t
live to see world-wide recognition. It falls to the innovator’s lot to
discover and improve things, and then die in due course, as good boys do.
By decently passing away, he enables the ’official’ geniuses to finally pay
attention to his invention itself! If the original inventor is lucky
enough, one of these ’geniuses’ simply steals the idea, but it is not a bad
thing at all. This way it is put into practice at least!! (cf.
Parkinson’s Law!) Dear Chessfriends! I had some successes as a tournament player (interchanged with fiascos, of course). I was Olympic Champion in 1978, World Champion Candidate in ’79-80, three-time Hungarian Champion (as you must know, it is far from easy in our country). I could list some more ’highlights.’ [Editor: see Adorján's FIDE data card, above right.] But the whole point I want to make here is that if I am asked to name the single most valuable part of my life’s work, it’s unquestionably ’BLACK IS OK’! Thanks to this theory, the quality of the royal game and the objectivity of tournament results will improve. The enormous psychological pressure that players experience during their preparations and especially during tournaments will certainly subside to a great extent! The wizards and fans of the GAME will fight EACH OTHER, not phantoms. Their creative imagination will not be shackled by fallacies. This shall please all chess lovers, and my life of many ups and downs shall become meaningful… AMEN
IGM
András ADORJÁN
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Reproach,
persecution, neglect and exclusion fall to the share of those who serve
progress in its pure, original sense. They are also allowed to starve
to death sometimes. Of the great Austrian composers, for instance,
Schubert found frozen water in his wash-basin in the morning, whereas
The
CONSCIOUS research I’ve been doing since the year 1985 (before that, I had
produced a ’plus’ score with BLACK simply INSTINCTIVELY) failed to reveal
any strictly chess-related arguments for ANY initial advantage for White.
The only exception is that the ’first’ player can play for a draw
