Unrelated question: Do you see any similarities between prison life and corp/work environments?
Did you get mistreated by any of the prison employees?
Did you get mistreated by any of the prison employees?
My very first job as a programmer was at a company which just started an internal chess championship. I entered the competition mainly to get to know the colleagues and have some fun, expecting them to be very strong players.
At the beginning of every match I asked them the question "IIRC the knight moves in an L shape, right?". That question was enough to make my opponents brutally underestimate my game. By the time they realised the error they made, they were in deep trouble: 5-6 pawns down, very difficult to come back. I've got my first 3 or 4 games easily won this way and the next player said something like "haha, yeah, cut the bullshit". I won that game too, but much harder. That first easy victories made win the championship in the end and got me the reputation of a smart guy.
As a junior software developer (among 12 other juniors who joined the company the same day as me), it was a nice way to make myself noticed.
GM Ben Finegold at the "Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis" he's always entertaining and his videos are packed full of content that would appeal to an average player.
I haven't been to prison but I get paid for my corporate job, I get to go home, and I can quit.
There's a spectrum.