It is called middle game in chess; meaning that it
comes after the opening and before the end:
The Middle Game in
Chess by Reuben Fine lists three major factors in the middlegame: king
safety, force (material)
and mobility, although not all of these factors are of equal importance. If
king safety is a serious issue, a well-executed attack on the king can render
other considerations, including material advantages, irrelevant. Material is another important consideration, Fine notes
that—if all other things are equal—any material advantage will usually be
decisive. According to Fine, a material advantage will usually not give a
direct mating attack unless the advantage is very large (a rook or more), rather it can be used as a means of gaining
more material and a decisive endgame advantage. The issue of mobility is
ensuring that the pieces have a wide scope of action and targets to focus on.
The concept is largely strategic in nature, and involves concepts as space, pawn weaknesses (since weak pawns can compel pieces to
defensive duties, reducing their mobility), and securing outposts for the pieces.
It keeps us on the direction of education, which is
the only middle game in life. Education
at very early age to create a different culture with options to overcome
cultural handicaps.
The middle game in triathlon is not as clear as the
one in chess. I will show you what could
happen if we do not master the middle game in an experiment that took place in
Manhattan with a homeless.
A homeless man learned to code and became
famous; one year later, he stopped programming because 'life' got in the way
- Caroline Moss Apr. 6, 2015, 9:54 AM
In the summer of 2013, a man named Patrick McConlogue offered a man
named Leo $100 — or the opportunity to learn how to code.
Leo was homeless, living on the streets of New York City, and McConlogue
used to pass him every day as he commuted to work. McConlogue figured he could
teach Leo a skill that Leo could then parlay into work that would help him back
on his feet.
Leo took the opportunity.
Business Insider
But he kept his promise and taught Leo how to code, and the two built an
eco-friendly ride share app together by December 2013.
The pair became a dream team and were covered extensively in the media (we
wrote about them here), and showing up on morning
TV shows like NBC's "Today" show.
When Business Insider caught up with Leo months after the successful
launch of his self-made and self-coded app, Leo was still homeless. It seemed
he didn't want access to the money that was available to him, which was being
held in McConlogue's account. It was too overwhelming.
On May 27, 2014, McConlogue told Business Insider: Leo "has a year to find a way, be it with a bank account or
proxy, to claim his money, every penny, from my account. If he doesn't want to
do that, I told him to pick a homeless shelter and we'll donate it."
With that deadline fast approaching, Mashable caught up with the two men
to see how Leo had progressed.
Leo, they write, is still homeless, over a year after the launch of
"Trees for Cars," his ride-share app.
Robert Libetti/ Business Insider
Grand still lives on the same back alleys where he and McConlogue first
met. Although he rents a storage unit, Grand occasionally keeps a shopping cart
full of his possessions by a pile of sandbags near the Chelsea Piers in New
York City. He no longer codes every day; Trees for Cars has long since disappeared
from app stores, since he does not want to pay for server space for its upkeep.
He occasionally takes on odd jobs as a welder, and whiles away time by walking
around the High Line public park.
In a video interview with Mashable and McConlogue, Leo says he plans on
getting back into coding, but things have gotten in the way and he hasn't been
able to get to the space where he codes.
When the reporter asks why, Leo sighs.
YouTube
"Life," he responds. "Because you know, life, you know.
Things going on. You have to do this, you have to do that."
"Homelessness is not a feature of someone, or a condition,"
McConlogue says in the video. "It's not a way to describe someone."
Leo says of his media spotlight: "You're hot one minute, you're
gone the next."
Middle game in triathlon has to do with education to
be successful in life, and as in chess, 95% of the success is in this stage of
the game; meaning that even before starting triathlon we know if we are going
to succeed or not just by looking at our education. We have posts related to this subject:
11 août 2013
Mexico is a sui generis country.
All the times Mexicans try to live together in the here and now; this is
something impossible to happen because we do not share the same concepts of
humanism, experience, science, religion, etc. Our extremes are a caveman and a
Nobel Prize winner in Science. How to
have a grammar that allows us to communicate has been the problem. Science is far behind in the community to
permit a bridge to have a human consensus.
I found a post to illustrate my point.
What he describes happens in any city of Mexico. According to the following article our assumptions are very different from what it is;
“The map is not the territory.” We think
people want to learn and particularly how to improve triathlon performance, but
they do not have the intention by culture.
In 1988, the World Bank estimated
that 1–2% of the global population subsists by waste picking.[9] A more
recent study from 2010 estimates that there are 1.5 million waste pickers in
India alone.[10]
Brazil, the country that collects the most robust official statistics on waste
pickers, estimates that nearly a quarter million of its citizens engage in
waste picking.[11]
Vázquez, J.J. (2013)
Happiness among the garbage: Differences in overall happiness among trash
pickers in León (Nicaragua), The
Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1–11.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2012.743574
Imagine you are an itinerant individual living in absolute penury in a
third-world country. You survive by going through other people’s garbage and
extracting your food for the day as well as other essentials like clothing and
footwear. You live your life hand to mouth and what your hand finds are the
things others have discarded. You recycle what you can for money, and this
considerable effort earns you about $3 a day.
By downward social comparison, almost anyone seeing a person living in
these conditions would assume the individuals engaged in this activity would
resent their life circumstance and view their life as anything but happy.
But this study shows this is a false assumption.
Not only are these people not depressed, they are optimistic, have good
relationships, and many of them play sports and read. The majority of them are happy with their lives.
Are our athletes educated to be champions? Take a moment of reflection. Your success will depend on your honest
answer. Otherwise, you have a long way
to go before starting “real” training.
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