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- From: rvacca@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (robert vacca)
- Subject: Re: Found art
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.014229.14645@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Notre Dame
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:42:29 GMT
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- Curtis Yarvin writes:
- > cj@sgi.com writes:
- >>In REC.GAMES.CHESS 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.
-
- 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, and (2) there are chemicals that affect performance
- in this area other than amphetamines. For example, I can vouch
- for the salubrious effects of champagne on chess playing skill.
- Especially when you have a higher alcohol tolerance than
- your opponent.
-
- ---
- David Vacca, Someday I will tell the whole story.
-