Does chess increase violence?
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Are we counting violence against chessmen?
This forum is pretty stupid. There's no way it causes violence. Violent people do violent things. Violent people cause violence, and violent people get that way from a violent culture. Chess doesn't instill violence in someone at all. A violent media and warlike ideology do.
Greenlaser?! I don't like Al Gore much either, but there is a concensus among thousands of scientists about global warming. The effects are undeniable. A collective conscious is the authoritative body. I'm around a number of them everyday at my university.
This forum is not stupid..and I think chess does have a link to uncontrollable anger...
Can chess cause obsession?
can obsession cause violence?
Does chess cause violence in the non-obessed or perhaps just act as a catalyst to events that probably would have unfolded under different circumstances.
How people are brought up to look at winning and losing and dealing with either is a much more likely cause of violence than 5.Nxe5
LOL..to exiledcanuck
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depthshaman, Global warming is all about controlling the people and reducing freedom. I lived through the politics of global cooling when I was already familiar with global warming greenhouse theory. Paul (The Population Bomb) Ehrlich and others then jumped from freezing to warming. Over 31,000 scientists signed against the current fad because they were not afraid of losing grants enough to shut up. 18,000 years ago (before industry) the ocean level was 350-400 feet lower than it is today. The earth has been warming since then, with fluctuations down at times. The issue is not just is the earth warming, but the connection between human activity and climate change. The whole thing reminds me of the children's story of Chicken Little and Henny Penny running around yelling, "The sky is falling!" Appeasing the gods of global warming requires human sacrifice.
Lol...
I was gonna stab my neighbor, but I glued a chess set to the hood of his car instead.... so I would say no.
hah! I find this topic rather amusing since my best friend has come to the conclusion "Chess players are violent!"
In her old school she was on the chess team and fights broke out all the time apparently. There was also one guy who'd hit a random person when she wouldn't play full out against him (he couldn't hit a girl and she was focusing on another game). Because of her experience there, everytime chess is brought up, she makes the statement "Chess players are violent!"
When I was 13 yrs old, I was playing a game against a friend of mine who was taunting me all through. Soon, I became very upset that I was losing so I flipped the board right on his face...
YES chess may make you violent, but only if you are previously aggravated or are infused with teenage hormones.
I agree with killgoose
My queen was killed in a chess game!
We should never forget what WAPR said in the movie WAR GAMES: A strange game, Professor, the only winning move is not to play. Yeah? Right.
mysticalfairymagic wrote:
hah! I find this topic rather amusing since my best friend has come to the conclusion "Chess players are violent!"
In her old school she was on the chess team and fights broke out all the time apparently. There was also one guy who'd hit a random person when she wouldn't play full out against him (he couldn't hit a girl and she was focusing on another game). Because of her experience there, everytime chess is brought up, she makes the statement "Chess players are violent!"
Maybe if she'd gone to a new school that senseless tragedy might never have happened.
add wrote: 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.
like what?
GreenLaser wrote: 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.
for safeties sake
if you get angry it is because you have to much riding on a single event. just think you want to win so badly and what is it really worth? you are setting yourself up for disaster. the joy you will get from the win is not even half of the frustration you will feel from a loss. your just not getting your moneys worth.
lets say you want to beat this guy because hes from china. win or lose it will mean absolutely nothing to you in an hour. an experienced player would just worry about improving his game. that is why experienced players are calm cool and collect, because they know what they want(and whats good for them) and have lost thousands of pointless games already. once you have played thousands of games you will naturally not invest so much emotion into a single game. this goes with anything in life i think.
so i dont think chess induces anger. what i do think is that people set them selves up for disappointment. and i also think those people are weak.
GreenLaser wrote: depthshaman, Global warming is all about controlling the people and reducing freedom. I lived through the politics of global cooling when I was already familiar with global warming greenhouse theory. Paul (The Population Bomb) Ehrlich and others then jumped from freezing to warming. Over 31,000 scientists signed against the current fad because they were not afraid of losing grants enough to shut up. 18,000 years ago (before industry) the ocean level was 350-400 feet lower than it is today. The earth has been warming since then, with fluctuations down at times. The issue is not just is the earth warming, but the connection between human activity and climate change. The whole thing reminds me of the children's story of Chicken Little and Henny Penny running around yelling, "The sky is falling!" Appeasing the gods of global warming requires human sacrifice.
i hope you feel the same way towards the usa patriot act as you do towards global warming...y'know,controlling people and reducing freedom and all.