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6 masters who proved that chess kills your brain and your life - YOU ARE WARNED
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Nov 2, 2022
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#204
To those who were called chain smokers, in their time, it was normal to smoke all day all the time
Nov 2, 2022
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#205
and of kasporov? now an important political figure, very sucessful as a person. an established humanitarian, philanthropist, and scholar.
you are bringing up one-off cases. these are not representative of titled players in general. also, all of these players have been dead for years.
Nov 2, 2022
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#206
woah, this is some convincing stuff.
meh im still not going to quit chess
JohnNapierSanDiego wrote:
such a stupid thread it should be locked.
Nobody wants to hear those opinions.
If you don't like this thread don't participate in it.
Nov 2, 2022
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#208
i am a master and i can tell you, if i spent all the time i had on chess on say programming or mathematics since an early age, i would have something resembling success more although im not sure the hoi polloi would call it a life lol
This list needs to be updated to include the characters of today. We can't leave out the Butt Plug Bandit (Hans), although it remains to be seen just how much his life/career has been ruined.
Too much of anything is bad. Milk, cookies, heroin, tv, exercise, and yes, gaming. It's not just chess. Balance is important. If working at playing a board game like the masters did requires that much dedication and commitment to become a profession there will be trade offs. Like psychological health.
Jan 11, 2023
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#212
How I like to describe it is to be good at chess, you have to go mad over it. But not too mad. These players exceeded that mad limit
Yeah nice you handpicked 6 masters to prove your point
Apr 2, 2024
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#215
This post is not only useless but also written with appalling disrespect. I say it should be deleted.
Apr 2, 2024
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#216
chessam1998 hat geschrieben:
Many could be added to this list.
Starting by adding all world champions, and adding names of strong players who never became world champion like Keres, Korchnoi, Rubinstein, ... Moin
Apr 2, 2024
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#217
nimzomalaysian wrote:
1. Paul Morphy - Regarded as the first unofficial world champion, within 2 years of playing international chess, he went nuts. Chess rearranged his neurons and he was never the same again. He spent the last 10 years of his life wandering aimlessy talking to himself. He died a beggar.
2. Willhelm Steinitz - This was the first official world champion but he died in an insane asylum, broken and flea infested. Chess manipulated his brain and destroyed his emotional quotient. He was eventually left to the dogs.
3. Jose Capablanca - This guy never did a day's work in his life. Everything came to him easy in life. He was such a genious at chess that he did no training, he read no book. All this developed in him the biggest egos the chess world has ever seen. All he did was eat gourmet meals, flirt with the best looking ladies and play poker smoking home made cigar. Eventually he died when he was analyzing a game in a chess club in New York when an artery in his brain burst due to high blood pressure. He was wearing a $1500 suit when this happened.
4. Alexander Alekhine - This guy spent 12 hours a day playing and analyzing chess for over 40 years. After beating Capablanca in the world championship match, he took his life for granted and became a drunkard, he used to arrive for a game stinking of alchohol. Once, he even peed in his pants during a game because he was too drunk to stumble to the toilet. He was assasinated in Portugal, his dead body was found hunched over a chess board.
5. Mikhail Tal - He was a genius over the board at spotting tactical combinations, his games are shocking. But, he was also a chain smoker and a drug addict, he executed masterpieces over the board under the influence of narcotics, he saw his own things on the board. He died prematurely at the age of 50, he looked like an 80 year old man. He died of kidney failure due to his lifetime indulgence in vodka, drugs and ciggarates.
6. Bobby Fisher - This person needs no introduction, he was arguably the greatest player of his time. But for the last 30 years of his life, he was the chess world's mad uncle, an embarrassment that cannot be expressed in words. He eventually died of kidney failure, he refused all his medicines.
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So, a question to all those who want to take chess seriously -
Do you really think its worth it to sacrifice your life, your happiness, the well-being of your loved ones just to achieve a superfluous title like a GM? Go to college, get a degree, get a job, live your life.
All of these people were living in the 20th century. Things were tough back then. This is the 21st century. We're less likely to do that.
Mikeeniete wrote:
This post is not only useless but also written with appalling disrespect. I say it should be deleted.
Or perhaps you could've just let it disappear, as nobody has responded in 6 months.
Never play chess; you might end up eating gourmet meals, flirting with beautiful ladies, and wearing $1500 suits.