When I play chess, I frequently run to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee or a few herring. I have to run because my opponents will often move quickly when I leave so that the time will run out on my clock. These short spurts of running and the balance required not to spill my coffee are very challenging and exhausting, not to mention the exhaustion I suffer when I discover my opponent, one Fred Fecklman, has stolen one of my pawns and is hiding it under a pillow. His girlfriend Hillary is not any better. She usually spots me a rook odds and then distracts me by singing during the game. Even worse, if I leave the room she steals my queen! Anyhow, my point about chess is that when I am not playing Fred or his songstress, the game of chess is not a physically active pursuit. Nevertheless, I find it mentally exhausting and have taken my body temperature during a difficult game and registered 39.5 degrees centrigade which converted to US fahrenheit is about 112. This accelerated metabolism often causes me to shake uncontrollably, and crave large quantities of salted crackers and orange juice. I asked a physician friend the meaning of this temperature rise, and she assured me it was not out of the ordinary. Furthermore, she said that checker players run high temps too during play although they only go up to 39 centigrade, while people playing world of warcraft on line have a drop in body temperature. I think people can have sportsmanship during a chess game, bad or good, and there is certainly increased mentation to which there must be some small supportive response from the rest of the body, but certainly in the traditional sense of sport ACTIVITY chess is not one of the classics. However, I think a more appropriate question would be, if you are mated by your opponent, can you sue them for palimony after the game.
@maniac
People are funny in how they react. Allowing for occasional aberrancy's in behavior, it still tells you something about them. I'm not very good at playing speed chess but once played someone on line a ten minute game and lost. All happy and friendly and chatty on line that he won, my opponent challenged me to another, and I said okay. We played again, and I was now a bit more used to the speed of moves and playing a bit better, so my opponent was losing. Suddenly, my opponent disappeared. No resignation or continued friendliness. I thought it was hilarious, but on the bright side I didn't have to listen to him sing.
lol .., @ darius...
yea that happens 2 me on here sometimes ... when they r winnin they r all chattin away and then if they make a mistake or i find another way 2 get back at them... then they stop talkin or they dont make their moves 4 ages ... lol
@greenlaser
My brother MattJust died on the stage, in vaudeville. While singing Thanks for the Memories, he forgot the words, causing him to have a nerdy breakdown. He then launched into a seven hour imitation of Jerry Lewis doing the nutty Professor. His girlfriend was so enamored of his shenanigans that she proposed to him but sadly he dropped Her-ring in a jar of pickles and she wouldn't speak to him ever again. However, they still played chess every night and eventually married despite remaining incommunicado. BTW, she usually won the games as she was stronger in the sac.
lol ... thats very funny ... i like it
Thank you m, a little silly I admit but I was in a silly mood. :-) How are your games going? I am in that chess.com vs computer game and not only are we in trouble against the computers but the team seems to be bickering. I wonder if there is any advantage to bickering, something that comes of it that is creative. There probably is but it gives me a headache... NM Greenlasergood one, now you're taking me down mammary lane...:-)
haha
haha @ darius...
i think team troubles can in a way help u ...
hope ur headache is gone lol.
yore crazy
Some interesting communication here.. I feel like not playing ever again with some people who use all legal rules to delay or defer their turns with mates staring at them.. Alas we get to know them only after having played with them..
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