Chess Discrimination

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22nd September 2008, 02:38pm
#21
by OckhamsRazor
Va Bch, VA United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 61
pvmike wrote:

but the school blocked all the sites with chess on it.


Dude...you can't have students thinking in school.  What would the world come to? ;)

22nd September 2008, 03:10pm
#22
by dsarkar
United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 7573

Unfortunately, Chess is one of the games you can play on a computer - unlike football or hockey. Dimwits cannot distinguish from a distance whether you are reading about it, or playing games. Obviously she has a bias against chess - or doesn't know much about it.

22nd September 2008, 04:34pm
#23
by Jythier
Rhode Island United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 191

You can play football or hockey on the computer!

22nd September 2008, 05:49pm
#24
by Tolob
Lexington, Kentucky United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 24

I don't know that this is relevant to anything, but an interesting phenomenon I've discovered:  when I play chess online at work (during lunch, a break, a boring teleconference), I feel like I actually do better than I do when I'm home relaxing.  Maybe my brain is more turned on at work, or I'm playing other people who are trying to play while at work, I don't know. I just think its ironic that I thought playing chess would expand my critical thinking abilities and maybe improve my work skills, and in fact I think its my work that improves my chess game.

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