Is Trump an unwitting pawn being played by the universe?

I wonder if Trump is nothing more than his name, nature's trump card, played in order to create the common ground humans have needed to exist for so long in order to finally unite? A pawn being moved in the cosmic game of chess he knows nothing of. The swansong of an archaic form of power clinging to cruelties it tells itself are former glories. Forced now to finally show its hand and go all in/out in its last stand.

It is possible for him to be the one poison capable of destroying the system that gave birth to him. Through the shameless and unapologetic use of his unjust freedoms, making visible and flaunting before all the way in which the previously unseen ways power could dominate and control its people at will, choosing instead to convert every act made into a symbolic currency that feeds his haemorrhaging ego and, he hopes, will carry him through to calmer waters on the other side.

He has chosen to become the unadulterated embodiment of what the capitalist system will allow to be created, but is making the fatal error of disclosing to the world exactly how and why he is doing it. As the truth about his agenda is evermore unveiled, by Trump himself, the ambiguity which he once could utilise to garner the support of those in a decisive limbo begins to evaporate, before finally only the hardcore, absolute disciples who have already made their decision to follow him to the bitter end no matter what transpires remain.

Having to ingest such a distilled concentration of power which has at last decided to abandon all fears about its appearance and intentions being judged I feel will lead to many people within Trump's camp to soon become violently sick. Vomiting up all that they have tried to stomach for so long in a desperate attempt to purge themselves.

In this way Trump helps to accelerate the formation of a global common ground through his demonstration to the world that man's power ought to be respected precisely because it has become so powerful, and therefore should be prioritized over our planet's ability to keep sustaining life. A delusion which we must snap out of finding so comically absurd and resist the urge to scoff at the manner in which we are entering potential oblivion.

Google's AlphaZero Has Made Watching A Chess Game Feel Like Going To The Opera

As the  Chess World Championship in London 2018 proved so conclusively, when you have everything to lose, humans more often than not will play things safe and not dare to dare. In the weeks since winning and retaining the World Championship, the highest rated player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, has admitted that his frustration in not being able to play to his potential for some time now has led him to admit he's not sure he will be defending his title again in 2020; a complaint you will not be hearing from a digital chess playing entity anytime soon, at least not in present iterations.

"When you reach a certain level, there is too much at stake to really let loose," (Magnus Carlsen)

At the top flight now, very rarely will players commit themselves fully to ideas which balance on a knife edge, walking the fine line between foolish hubris or artistic genius.

For this chess fan it has now become an obvious fact that watching the ideas produced by AlphaZero and Leela, neural network chess playing entities that feel no pressure, feel no embarrassment in losing and take no pleasure from playing perfectly when they do, has undoubtedly had the effect of injecting chess with a level of drama reminiscent of the Romantic period, where dynamic flourishes would render the chessboard a scene from a ballet rather than the grinding battle of attrition found in a military campaign.

Watching Grandmaster Daniel King become giddy like a child, declaring "This is unbelievable chess!", as he witnesses yet another move which for him, in the words of the wise sage Vizzini, was moments ago literally 'Inconceivable', heralds I think a rebirth of chess and further reaffirms the significance of this new age of dynamic playing that has begun. Humans, it seems, are accepting their role now as keen and content spectators, appreciators of games and other pursuits played by players who play games the way they ought be played.

AlphaZero has come to share the good news, that material means nothing when you have superior space and piece activity. Dynamism is back. Chess has become Art again in the truest sense of the word. And this is what the chess world has desperately needed to hear for some time now.

stockfish for president

To play perfect chess, is to find the perfect way forward in the game.

If life is a game, and chess is a game, then chess is life, which would make chess engines the most successful decision makers in the world. Therefore Stockfish for President!