Do you think chess and music are related?
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Ah yes, looks like somebody's about to play the celebrated Bughouse Concerto.
And they make use of white and black.
Among the best known examples of crossover artists were François-André Danican Philidor, the greatest player and one of the top composers of the 18th century; Vasily Smyslov, the seventh world champion, who almost became a singer in the Bolshoi Opera; Mark Taimanov, who was among the best players in the world in his heyday, as well as being a top concert pianist; and Gregor Piatigorsky, the great cellist, who sponsored two of the strongest chess tournaments in United States history (1963 in Los Angeles, and 1966 in Santa Monica, Calif.) and whose wife, Jacqueline, was among the best women players in the country for many years.
Aug 25, 2012
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#5
In both fields timing is crucial and both fields have had amazing prodigies, although I was surprised to learn many other fields besides these two and mathematics have also had amazing prodigies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_prodigies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies
Emotion is common in music and chess in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CMp6arr_0&list=UUfDiHMtMoo3eNFU2sQmqMXA&index=21&feature=plcp
-kenpo- wrote:
(you know, you didn't ever answer my question clifton...)
Sorry, I missed it.
Aug 25, 2012
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Tantale wrote:
Emotion is common in music and chess in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CMp6arr_0&list=UUfDiHMtMoo3eNFU2sQmqMXA&index=21&feature=plcp
As much as I love chess it doesn't "move" me. Nor have I ever made a move for it to stir up emotions. lol
Well, thank God you finally answered.
Aug 25, 2012
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#11
Both evoke the compositional mind, whose generative capabilities require formal constraint. . .
"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint, diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."
~Igor Stravinsky, The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (1942)
Boy, that Igor was one kinky dude.
Aug 25, 2012
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#13
Oh my, what a silly question!
Are chess and duck-hunting related? Music and shoe polish? yes ....and .... yes!
Absolutely:
yes!!!!
both are the arena of people who ask DICK QUESTIONS!!!!!!
Let's see, chess and duck-hunting...
For both chess tourneys and duck-hunting, you have to get up way too freakin early in the morning.
Music and shoe polish...
They both put a shine in your step. 
jussuf wrote:
definitely NO!
Aha! I knew there'd be a retraction.
Think is possible to be good at both when mentally-attuned. :)