I had to chip in because of the actual BUTTHURT people who use that quote like it was some kind of divine revelation from the heavens with no knowledge of the context in which it was said. People like Elon Musk who probably lost to a 6 year old and wouldn't stop rambling about how chess is so easy and would be solved in the next ten years. Zero knowledge but a million outrageous takes. I could apply your logic to literally any other sport or profession and say if you're not at the peak then you wasted your life. "The ability to play chess at a world class level and win money is not a wasted life", well the person who made the quote was the best in the world at the time so what are you saying? Did he waste his life or not?😂 I tried to give context as to why he said it when he said it. Now explain how the ability to play chess well is a waste of life, let me guess, "you could be doing something else with your time" now apply that logic to any other field of human endeavour and you'd find that 99% of people are wasting their lives, according to you, lil bro.

Reminds me of an Uncle I had growing up, whenever he had one to many!

I'd think about it😄 but it takes a lot of time and effort to make😂