The argument for professional chess being illegal

kaynight wrote:

Let's have a Whoop! For the trolls.

Whoop. Also Morphy quit after less than fifty games. And given the high rate of syphilis in those days, its entirely possible either he or Steinitz had it if they got laid even once. Besides I have always been a bit nuts, even before chess was my thing.

Obviously you never looked at the amount of chessplayers that went insane later in life. Even Morphy and Steinitz. Steinitz ended up in a madhouse, Morphy was delusional at the end of his life, which was not even old. You can't dismiss factual claims. Its a fact that chess players tend to experience insanity very frequently. They need to be stopped.

Whoop. Also Morphy quit after less than fifty games. And given the high rate of syphilis in those days, its entirely possible either he or Steinitz had it if they got laid even once. Besides I have always been a bit nuts, even before chess was my thing.

There has been a recent forum post about how chess has ruined one's life, and while browsing that thread, I have notice some very interesting points:

1. Many people believe chess is a waste of time, which there is some good arguments that may strengthen this point, but I'm not going to argue this either way.

2. There have been a number of people, myself included, that have admitted to getting violent tendencies due to their chess life. It seems that if chess has negatively effected their brains such in the way of Fischer, that caused them to go insane. 

3. Chess has been linked to one of the most violent serial killers in russian history, Alexander Pichushkin. He was known as the chessboard killer, he was famous for wanting to kill 64 people, the same amount of squares on a chessboard, and was himself a chess player. He was also known for saying that without murder, he couldn't live. that he murders people in order to live, and a life without murder isn't a life at all. Believe it or not, this is a mentality most chess players have developed and it is very dangerous. 

4. At the top level, chess is your life. Sure Magnus Carlsen might be in shape, active, and happy...but for how long? Soon the amount of stress that he will encounter will be too much for his mind, he will get older and less active, and what will he have to take his mind off chess? Absolutely nothing. He will also develop into a violent murderer. Not all chess players are murderers, but there have been many cases in chess players acting out like madmen, which in extreme cases may lead to someone getting killed. 

5. In conclusion, chess is a very interesting game, but it is dangerous to society. With the promotion of chess, we are essentially promoting insanity and violence, which is ironic because most people who start studying chess are anything but that. They are peaceful people who are looking for a game of strategy to occupy themselves with, something of interest that is rich in ideas. Chess was their answer, but the answer didn't last...the answer was tainted with poison. Soon at the end of our lives, we will die insufferable messes if we play chess and promote it. Imagine a world where everyone was a chessplayer and were playing the game as a hobby. We would be a world of soul-less zombies, devoting time to a hobby that slowly kills our motivation for happiness. The top players must be stopped. They are the purest form of evil  that this world has ever known, and they must be stopped. They have been infected so ferociously by this chess-loving virus that while they don't know they are  turning into insane murderous freaks, they are promoting the same behavior to innocent CHILDREN! There is such a thing as SCHOLASTIC chess nowadays. Terrible.. These were just my two cents. 

Best regards, lolurspammed. (: 

All of my points were based on concrete facts and logic.