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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Found art
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:49:40 GMT
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- In article <v7210ak@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- >
- >In REC.GAMES.CHESS <32iRXB1w164w@tweekco.uucpjay@tweekco.uucp (Jay Whitley) writes:
- >|I've read allegations about drugs in chess (allegations about
- >|Karpov in K-K World Championship, etc.) Should drug use be
- >|banned from chess play as it is in athletic events? Should there
- >|be drug testing?
- >
- >Curtis? Chess on ergot derivatives? Go I know about.
-
- It wouldn't work.
-
- Chess is to go, as weightlifting is to fencing. It's a sport of
- brute mental strength. It's bestial. There's hardly any skill
- involved; the only requirement is the ability to read out and
- prune immense numbers of board permutations. The effort of
- this is so great that it dwarfs strategic judgment.
-
- The only drug for chess is amphetamine. Crude. Very crude.
-
- Go also requires reading ability; but strategic intuition is
- far more important. Insight. And inasmuch as the foul fungus
- strengthens such, it is salubrious.
-
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