Chess while drunk

I find chess kind of boring when I'm sober (I'm maybe a little bit too stupid for this game) but when I'm drunk it's all I want to do, even if I suck. At the same time, I actually play a little better drunk because I gain a lot of confidence and motivation that I don't have sober. Anyone else experience anything similar?

There's a humourous angle to this that I'm sure others will pick up upon - whether they can resist stereotypes will be another thing

...but you know, a little alcohol can relax, and I think at club  level might help tenseness...

I recall being beat by a player who regular drunk at a lot and at got through four pints of Guiness in our game.

I heard another story a few years back about a high level player in the civil service championship who was a known drinker and got intoxicated, created some nuisance, got little sleep and won the title !

I've only ever got two first places in chess tournaments. The last was when I got speaking two strange women in my then local pub and went with them to night club in the city, I got to bed after a few jars at about 3am and went on to win my section later in the day with an early start....

I can't recommend heavy regular drinking....but a tipple or two now and again is not necessarily a bad thing !

Haha well I am Scottish, I'm going to be drunk regardless

I've experienced similar things. When i focus, my play generally stays the same because of tradeoffs where some aspects improve and others decline.

I tend to be easily-distracted, though, and this amplifies exponentially with alcohol. A dozen moves in on one game, I went on tangential rambles and found the shapes of the pieces hilarious and then started expressing sadness about things being trapped in a world of just 64 squares. Then my 30 minutes ran out.

This is after about two drinks. I'm a lightweight.

Hold on, is this an Englishman recommending moderation in drinking? That's a first.

Ah, but this is all part of the fun. If one can't have drunken existential crises about inanimate objects than why play games at all?

Refer to the other 896,984,736,485,600 post about being drunk.

https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=drunk

I cannae very well search keywords in my current state

True! And to be honest, that's generally my approach to games when sober as well. There's no time like the present for existential crises! I tend not to need alcohol at all to get people asking how much I've had.

Sober I do better than otherwise vs strong players.

Drunk I do better than otherwise vs weak players (my moves are a little worse, but 2 or 3 times faster, putting them under a lot of pressure).