psychotic chess masters

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   How many crazy chess masters have their been?

   There was Bobby Fischer, who people think went crazy.

   Then that Russian guy who got institutionalized.

   Any others?  What was their story?

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Oh chill dude.  My wife and I had some good food at a local microbrewery, good dessert at home. Recorded an MP3 or two for the off topic forum, laughed, watched The Voice, I played some blitz and started winning again. Life is good. 

I like to pretend that a few months ago reflectivist made a bet with a friend on how many replies he could generate in his chess.com threads in a certain time frame and ever since he's relentlessly pursued his goal.

I believe him when he says he's not upset at all.  Eyes on the prize baby.

This thread is about psychotic chess masters (similarities to psychic chess masters notwithstanding). To keep me out of trouble with "the heat", let's not digress from the topic too much, into UFOs, motorcycle racing, the icons of various members, etc... Having said that, my expectations aren't as high anymore about the management of threads by the staff.  I was pissed off today when I discovered the dark underbelly of the beast.  Now that I know how arbitrary, subjective, non-negotiable and clandestine moderation is here, I will be less likely to assume the best, and less inclined to be shocked and disappointed by their activities.  I saw them do the right thing in a forum and not just target me, so I appreciated that they are trying to apply the same justice to everyone.  As long as there is some fair play and reasonably clear guidelines I can't object too much.

Sure you can. 

Define 'too much'.

http://amog.com/entertainment/celebrity/craziest-brilliant-chess-grandmasters-time/

Well...singing some weird little blues song about your difficulties, for example. 

pdve wrote:

   http://amog.com/entertainment/celebrity/craziest-brilliant-chess-grandmasters-time/

OK.  Well psychotic chess masters are a dead end.  Let's take it down a notch.

What about neurotic chess novices?  Any of those?

Probably pretty rare to find such an animal.

No, they're still too normal to be a mess.  Chucky is lightyears beyond the crowd in a number of ways. 

Oh, dude.  Weird little blues tune?  I made that up and played as carelessly as possible into an online MP3 recording thing using my computer's built in chat mic all in a matter of about 5 minutes time having never used the interface before.  Timing was off, and I was just goofing around, overdriving the pre-amp w/o/realizing, and fun metabolizing the pale ale I had at the microbrewery.  If I want to write a ditty about chess.com, the members or the moderators, I can do a lot better than that in every aspect.  Now that seems like some good healthy fun.  Sound like a good plan?  

I did!

hell yeah!

http://www.recordmp3.org/dI0dW.mp3

A veritable masterpiece of minimalism!

Yeah - I really indid myself this time.