While we are at this beginning phase, we might want to think a bit about pairing.

For new people, it might be easier to go in with someone more experienced, especially at the beginning.

Would this help someone getting started?

In a chess game between Masters, the match suddenly ends before most of the fans understand
why. That is because both Masters are thinking six moves ahead, and one of them realizes
he has lost long before it is obvious to the merely excellent players who think four moves
ahead.

I keep warning you never to get off Bob’s Mantra and HERESY! because the enemy only has two
arguments, and these moves destroy them. So in the real world, you have to keep dealing
with their attempts to wiggle out of the fact that they are proposing genocide and they are
suppressing al counter arguments as HERESY! aka anaziwhwantstokillsixmillionjews, Racism.

This is simple. It is NOT easy.

You will let your prey slip through many times. But you will soon realize instantly, like
a chess master, that you just let it go.

Every time you play a game of poker, you will sonder how in the HELL you could have done
something that STUPID. You’ll get over it.

Chess has been described for centuries as a war strategy played on a small field. Our war
strategy is as fascinating as chess, but unlike chess, it MATTERS.

The main thing I have to offer you is what I learned from fifty years of screwups.

I am NOT asking you to do something easy. Exposing yourself to ridicule or defeat,
even under a pseudonym, is HARD.

Add to that how hard it is to learn the Internet techniques people like Pain consider easy.

Shari had the courage to say she didn’t know how to copy and paste. For each Shari, there
are a dozen people who don’t have the guts to appear ignorant.

Let Ole Genius Bob tell you up front that HE can’t just follow Pain’s instructions at first
shot. But I’ll find out. I’m USED to asking over and over and over again. The battle is too important for me to worry about whether I look smart or not.

I need my TRAINIG, and I’m going to GET it.

If anybody is embarrassed about asking publically over and over, I can get you together directly if BOTH
parties CLEARLY agree to it. But having the courage to ask publically is important.

For each person who is willing to ask over and over and look amateurish, there are a dozen others who don’t want to admit they just don’t GET it. So it would be better if you forced the experts to instruct you over and over and over.

Did I say “over?”

The payoff is high.

A lot of people are addicted to chess or bridge. But we are playing a game of World Domination for REAL. The startup cost in effort to you is high, but the payoff is enormous. This is the Big Game.

Also, if you screw up, tell us so. The main thing I have to offer you is what I learned from fifty years of screwups. No matter how ridiculous you may consider your mistake in hindsight, a lot of people are going to repeat it if you don’t tell us about it.

Now for some Words of Wisdom that, Lord be praised, I didn’t come up with.

I love it when my students come up with stuff I can’t match, like Pain’s:

“Keep moving fast. The more you post, the higher your morale.”

And I wind this up on Lord Nelson’s unimprovable:

“Whats going to happen IS happening.”
“LET’S TAKE OUT THESE SICKOS!”