Blood Donation and Transference of Chess Skills

Is there any remote possibility that the receipient of the donated blood from a skilled chess master acquires some inherent chess skills?

Check out scientific studies on Vampires: in particular, their pre- and post- skill levels.

No, .............. blood is just blood, skill is all in the brain.

Ask ex-Chess.com user Nosferatu

So you need to eat their brains instead?

That doesn't seem to work for zombies

There seem to be about two dozen users on chess.com with the term ZOMBIE in their username.

What ratings?

Why did he leave chess.com? I believe Vampires never die. Alas, since he is now gone forever, I would not be able to know his technique of Transference of Chess skills.

Long  live Count Nosferatu !

They all are highly-rated with 'Z' suffixed at the end of their ratings. 'Z' - a sign of Cult Honour bestowed upon by Chess.com

No, there isn't. One does not aquire someone's skills by blood donations, just as one doesn't by eating him.

But you can aquire some of someone's chess skills by talking to him and analyzing with him!

What about in the instance of an organ transplant?

I am delighted looking at the inherent contradiction contained in this statement.

I think you're right. I played someone at my bar a few nights ago that claimed he was "superman". No kidding. He even had an "S" tatoo on his chest(which he was happy to show everyone). But he was not "super" at chess.

Well played! 

I was expecting some "not-so-obvious" answers. Even if transference is not possible today, but might be possible tomorrow, we should not stop thinking "out-of-box" to find new solutions. Also, there is plenty of blood available if people are not scared of donating.

As to Chess ability, at the present stage of psychology, the nature of imagination remains obscure. Therefore, it is impossible to speak about special faculties for Chess, or even to establish any cognate relationship between skill at Chess and other abilities. Certainly, famous Chess masters have excelled in other, and various activities - from the music of Philidor and the Shakespearian researches of Staunton to the medicine of Tarrash and the engineering of Vidmar. Nor is there evidence of the transmission of Chess skill, innate or acquired. Why some persons are good at Chess, and others bad at it, is more mysterious than anything on the Chess board. "Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas" ( Jose Raoul Capablanca).

Yes, I donated blood in a rehabilation camp a few months ago, and NOW they play d5. There are plenty of forklore stories in nearly all countries, suggesting such transference of skills is possible. To elaborate, you can read references like "born of pure blood", "revived from the blood of a warrior", etc.

Well, that's it. I have discovered the single most stupid thread ever created.

I wouldn't be so sure; it's up against some pretty stiff competition.

Not as stupid as you may think: organ recipients have been known to display new personality characteristics. The advances in the study of DNA are revealing new possibilties as well. 

http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4984

‘Most likely to suffer changes of personality were patients who had
undergone heart transplants, the study found – as in the case of a 47-
year-old man who suddenly developed a passion for classical music after
his operation. Unknown to him, the music was also the favourite of the
teenager whose heart he acquired.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=162609

The impact of this theory, if true, is that our identity, our self, leaves a
permanent mark on our genome. We may pass onto our descendents much
more than eye colour. It has already been estimated that perhaps 40% of
known personality traits are inherited, such as introversion/extraversion. This
theory could explain how. It also poses other intriguing questions for our field.
Carl Jung popularised the idea of a collective unconscious that we are all
plugged into, and suggested it as the repository of racial memories and
universal archetypes. With genetic research now proving the inter-relatedness
of all racial branches of the humanity – we are all related at some point in the
past with Caesar, Sitting Bull, Nelson Mandela, Confucius and Uncle Tom
Cobbly – the genetic transmission of memory would be a sensible transport
mechanism for Jung’s theory.