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Prometheus_Fuschs
Ziryab escribió:

Real chess, if chess is a sport, is blitz (especially drunk blitz).

I wish more people knew how to play chess and that restaurants had boards.

Pulpofeira

You need to move to Armenia or Iceland, if I'm not wrong.

Ziryab
Prometheus_Fuschs wrote:
Ziryab escribió:

Real chess, if chess is a sport, is blitz (especially drunk blitz).

I wish more people knew how to play chess and that restaurants had boards.

 When I've played chess in coffee houses, restaurants, and pubs, it always generates interest. Some bars have chess sets hidden behind the counter, too. But they are usually those small, hollow plastic pieces that you can buy for $2 at Piggly Wiggly.

pdve

I don't know about restaurants and bars but mental hospitals do generally have chess sets. 

 

John Nash's son who is a chess player says it helps him with his schizophrenia.

wollyhood

Yah but Maeve Billings cousin who also plays chess says that it doesn't

wollyhood

spoken like a true prescriber xD

mariners234
Optimissed wrote:

Just the opposite in fact. I believe that schizophrenia is curable but the person has to do it themselves and drugs will make it impossible.

Yeah, all it takes is a few energy crystals, meditation, and the right kind of yogurt.

mariners234

And believe me, this has to be like... really good yogurt.

Like the kind I rubbed on my broken ankle, then 10 minutes later won an NBA championship ring.

Ziryab
Karpov ate performance enhancing yogurt in 1978 (that also was alleged to communicate secret messages).
pdve
Optimissed wrote:

You can get lost in chess. Schizophrenics get lost in their thoughts and don't know how to prioritise them, often because they can't handle the intensity. Probably also because they are doped up to the eyeballs and can't think fast enough to follow their unconscious thoughts, which is necessary to track them and work out where they come from.
This means that chess can be positive or negative as part of a self-administered therapy.

that's correct.

pdve
Optimissed wrote:

Just the opposite in fact. I believe that schizophrenia is curable but the person has to do it themselves and drugs will make it impossible.

schizophrenia can't be cured only managed.

wollyhood
wollyhood

spoken like a true prescriber xD

Optimissed wrote:

Just the opposite in fact. I believe that schizophrenia is curable but the person has to do it themselves and drugs will make it impossible.

hahaha but You DO have some kind of PRESCRIBER's ticket don't you, so I was exactly right, you've obviously got some kind of prescribing degree, be it a BA or a MB, so you're starting to lecture us about Psych, which I barely think they have even half of the science right, but you've got all these half arked ideas about treatign Schiz with your opinion

Ziryab

This thread has become schizophrenic and for that I'm sure there is no cure, unless I simply block all the voices. Then, the thread will die.

pdve

yes there should be a separate thread for schizophrenia and chess