From Strong Chess Player to Duffer Phenomenon

     How can one transform a strong player into what appears to be duffer in a matter of seconds? Well, there are various ways that this seemingly miraculous change can easily  be accomplished. 

    One is by submitting the player to sleep deprivation. You see, once the brain is in a torpid state, there is no way that an adequate concentration can be maintained. Despite his best efforts, such a player will dip in and out of REM [Rapid Eye Movement]sleep-stage characterized by dream or hallucinatory imagery, and will consequently either time out or blunder.


     Of course, this condition is usually a self-inflicted phenomenon caused by a player attempting to play chess while in such a mentally exhausted condition. 

     Another way is by pitting the player up against what he believes are other humans, but which are actually strong computer-playing machines.  Suddenly  and inexplicably, no matter what the strong player does, he can't seem to win.

      All traps are seen and countered. All previously-successful strategy is effortlessly nullified. Time deficits are calmly ignored as if they were totally irrelevant, and the player is inexorably and effortlessly mowed down.

    This gradually and inexorably lowers his ELO a hundred or more points in a jiffy, and places him right smack dab where he is deemed to belong by the anonymous powers that be. What might those powers be? 

     Well, MAGAS are one very likely possibility, since they feel it their patriotic duty to try to prevent those whom they consider immigrants, from experiencing any success in the USA.

     Why? Well, because success, after all, would encourage immigrants to inform their family in Mexico or some other Latin American countries to cross the USA border illegally since things are very nice here. Never mind that they might not be Mexican nor have any family in Mexico, nor in any other place that isn't part of the USA. In their fervidly fanatical MAGA minds, they do, and if it's real for them, then it's as real as their feeling of having done MAGA.

  So in these two ways, a chess strong player can go from strong to a duffer in a matter of seconds. In my case, I humbly accept responsibility for the first, since I do sometimes play while suffering from  sleep deprivation. However, for the second one? Sorry but Nawwwwwww!