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| Apr-18-09 | | blacksburg: people think i'm weird when i say <i'm not on facebook>. i call them <computer geeks>, then i go play <internet chess>. my life is full of contradictions. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Caissanist: The managing director of Clarium Capital is Patrick Wolff. |
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| May-30-11 | | Caissanist: Here is a recent column in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Thiel Foundation Fellowships Have a Scary Premise". The basic idea seems to be that, for many bright young people, going to college is a waste of time and money, so Thiel is offering them $100,000 each to pursue their own scientific and technical ideas: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic.... |
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| Jun-03-11 | | Caissanist: Another of the, er "unconventional" ideas Thiel is financing: a floating Libertarian paradise off the coast of California: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic... |
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Jun-03-11
 | | perfidious: <Caissanist> Wolff is an old adversary. We first met in Springfield, Mass in 1978, when he was about 1150. He played a decent game, but I managed to win. By our next encounter in 1982, we were both masters. Retribution time for Patrick. Last time I saw him was at the '93 World Open. Knew he'd gotten out of chess, but had no idea what he was into now. |
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| Feb-16-12 | | TheBish: Wow, it's a small world! I met Peter Thiel at Stanford, when I was visiting there with a friend when living in northern California. I played him a couple of blitz games, I think we split but remember he was very good, but not yet master (maybe 2100+). I have heard his name quite a bit on the news recently, thinking it must be another Peter Thiel, but now I know it must be the same one, as how many master chess players with his name went to Stanford? I'm curious... what came first, his money or his neocon philosophy? (I just read the article about him in the Guardian -- see popski's link.) Also, I was surprised to find out he was the one who founded PayPal, but I suppose it all adds up. |
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| Feb-26-12 | | Caissanist: Recent article on Thiel in the SF Chronicle. He has given Ron Paul $2.6 million so far this election cycle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic... |
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| Mar-06-12 | | galdur: Show me a good loser and I´ll show you a loser. ---Peter Thiel |
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| Apr-07-12 | | Marmot PFL: Thiel plays blitz at Marshall CC, 4 minutes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&f... |
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| Jun-07-12 | | Ziggurat: <The Chess Concepts Peter Thiel Used To Become A Billionaire> Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-...> http://www.businessinsider.com/the-... |
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Aug-31-13
 | | BishopBerkeley: There are ~1,400 billionaires & ~1,300 Chess Grandmasters in the world: 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billi... 2) http://is.gd/j0vyiV (Last time I checked, I was neither...)
Hope you have all been well & in good spirits.
(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :) |
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| Jul-21-14 | | Ke2: <BishopBerkeley> As far as I know Karpov is the only one in both groups |
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| Sep-12-14 | | Caissanist: Thiel did an AMA on Reddit yesterday. I found it quite interesting, although I certainly don't agree with everything he says: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen... . |
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| May-28-16 | | Caissanist: I'm surprised there hasn't been any mention here of Thiel's financing of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker, as retaliation for a Gawker site outing him in 2007. For better or worse, that's probably going to be his legacy more than anything else. |
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| May-28-16 | | Jim Bartle: This is the same Thiel? Quite a story, I can see reasons both for and against financing a lawsuit like that. Now I know why Hogan wouldn't accept any kind of settlement offer. |
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| May-28-16 | | Caissanist: The very same. He obviously planned out this combination well in advance, but it remains to be seen whether it is fundamentally sound. |
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| Feb-21-18 | | Caissanist: Why Thiel is preparing for the apocalypse in New Zealand: https://www.theguardian.com/news/20... . |
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| Sep-11-20 | | Caissanist: Interesting article in Buzzfeed about Thiel's flirtations, and recent disillusionment, with Trump and other right-wing politicial figures. The chatter about this story seems mostly to be about a dinner he hosted for various far-right figures in 2016. Knowing Thiel, the simple fact that no one else was willing to talk with them would have been enough to pique his interest: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl... . |
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| Sep-11-20 | | utssb: <Knowing Thiel, the simple fact that no one else was willing to talk with them would have been enough to pique his interest>
Yes - that must have been the thing that attracted him. He has a passion for talking to people who don't get talked to enough. He could express that passion by going and talking to ignored people. Abandoned children, mental patients, abused minority groups... but he chose to meet up with Neo-Nazi leaders. Guy is an irrelevant chess player - so let's keep the conversation of him as a person tethered to reality. He's not a genius, he's not a great chess player and apparently he keeps some very ugly company. I'd rather watch Elon Musk play a French Defense. Totally irrelevant people in this context. They get enough praise elsewhere for behaving like parasites. |
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Sep-19-20
 | | keypusher: Yarvin diagrammed by Zero HP Lovecraft.
https://mobile.twitter.com/0x49fa98... |
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| Oct-30-20 | | Caissanist: <utssb> Personally, I would rather this be chessgames' designated politics/economics/philosophy page instead of Rogoff, who actually had a chess career of some interest. |
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| Jun-28-21 | | Caissanist: He'll probably never be the world's richest person, but he likely has the most valuable IRA: https://www.propublica.org/article/... . |
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Jun-28-21
 | | MissScarlett: I've alerted Thiel's people, so don't be surprised if the previous comment disappears. |
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| Sep-27-21 | | Caissanist: A journalist named Max Chafkin has published a bio of Thiel, the first chapter of which is excerpted here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/art... . Chafkin's belief is that Thiel's ideology now dominates Silicon Valley, and to me he makes a strong case. |
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| Aug-27-23 | | Caissanist: Thiel has cultivated a network of alums of The Stanford Review, an alt-right newspaper founded at that university as an alternative to the generally left-ish views on that campus: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com... . |
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