Does chess increase violence?
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Chess_champion26...I am not racking up points...and I like chess. Also I am not a scammer. Hope that wakes you up.
I once proposed a therory that the more "civilized" sports caused more psycho violence. A ballet dancer told me that she check the toes of her shoes for glass splinters before auditioning. Then there were the Monica Seles and Lewinsky attacks. Does not happen in football or even TV wrestling. The ironies of life just keep piling up.
LOL
if ppl turn 2 violence after chess then what has happend 2 the world... ITS JUST A GAME!
exactly
I actually think that depending on the person, it might. I get edgy when going for an attack but if it fails I'm not gonna punch the guy in the face or anything. But like bastiaan said, it would develop thinking process more than it would violent behavior.
chess is brutal...once you lose you become cranky and self-centred and in some cases you go mad.
If you go mad because you lost a game of chess, you were already mad to begin with.
Chess causes violence? Come on. Chess has a reputation of having some of the most timid players in the world. Unless you're playing it in certain ghettoes, where I heard they will kill each other for a $5 bet.
Chess doesn't 'cause' violence, if you are violent because of a chess game you were already violent to begin with. Any game would have triggered the violence.
Zenchess..it has not been that way. People do crazy things when they are mad or sad.
Jun 8, 2008
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When Al Gore was vice president he explained his breaking of fund raising laws by saying, "there was no controlling legal authority." Now, in his global warming politics, there is no controlling scientific authority. Chess players need external controls on their behavior. Some have been banned by clubs and organizers. Sometimes arrests are necessary. This is true of all human activites, not just chess.
I agree Greenlaser
I recommend sobriety checks for chess players. Drinking and patzering don't mix.
lol
SK-B wrote: I recommend sobriety checks for chess players. Drinking and patzering don't mix.
what's patzering ?
is that like pistoleering or evil_homering
( which is south african slang for "drinking like the oirish" )
Patzering means someone is playing chess beginerly
If I were to annotate this thread it would go like this:
1. Chess causes violence ??
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Ray_Brooks wrote:
It can do:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_549217.html
/ thanks to photoman for the link.
lol, thats funny
johndoorway wrote: lol are you just trying to raise your member points or are you serious?
i think so, i know i am
yes, but so does most things we do, but chess also increases alot of other good things to so it all evens out in the end.
Zenchess> Chess doesn't 'cause' violence, if you are violent because of a chess game you were already violent to begin with. Any game would have triggered the violence.
In 1000 AD, King Canute played Earl Ulf in a game of chess. Ulf played a winning move; the king told him to choose another one. The Earl overturned the board and turned to leave the room. The next day the King ordered him executed.
In 2006, Chris Newton killed his cellmate over a series of chess games. His motive for the murder? "Every time I put him in check, he'd give up and want to start a new game... and I tried to tell him you never give up ... I just got tired of it."
Canute and Newton were capable of killing before their games, but if Canute and Ulf had played a game the king was better at perhaps history would be different, and it's notable that chess is the only thing Newton ever killed over.