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Can alcohol and chess ever mix?

If chess is like the art of sword fighting, then it must be drunken style! the thing about drunken boxing is that the trick is to only make people think you are sozzled - and then surprise them with a sobering attack when they are least expecting it!

If you could exhume Joseph Henry Blackburne and Alexander Alekhine you could ask them. Read this Edward Winter Chess Note.
I know there are Masters that have had a sauce problem. Folk say that's they would have been better sober but is that truly a fact ? Especially for those master type ? let's talk