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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Found art
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:58:36 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- por cabeza de vacca:
- |
- |> >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.
- |
- | Au contraire, mon frere. Having practiced all four
- |of the diversions you mention above, two of them (Fencing and
- |Chess) at the competitive level, I assure you that (1) there is
- |a valid psychological dimension to chess when playing a human
- |opponent,
-
- Indeed. This is normally not large, but can be accentuated
- by occasionally delivering sharp kicks to the opponent's ankle.
- It is said that the late, great Bobby Fischer achieved many of
- his victories in this way.
-
- A considerable unnerving effect can also be obtained by biting
- the heads off captured pieces.
-
- But as for _strategy_ - pah! There's no more strategy in a
- game of chess than in a barfight. Occasionally it'll stick
- its head out of the toilet, but when things get down to glass
- and flesh it's all who has more beer in his bottle.
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