Weird Things Which Have Happened To Chess.com Players

This can be about chess or non chess. I will start with a non-chess event.

In 2002 my neurologist asked my wife and I to come into his office. He told my wife and I that I had Alzheimers Disease and in one year I would be in a nursing home and out of my mind. And in about 2 years I would be dead.

Two weeks later my wife filed for divorce. We were divorced a few months later and had a custody fight for our 2 boys. To get shared custody I had to prove I did not have Alzheimers. So I went to another neurologist and he gave me a written statement that I did not have Alzheimers. Later I got full custody of my 2 boys.

And you are still alive?!?

I think I am still alive. After my divorce I remarried and now have a wonderful wife!

The court was satisfied that I did not have Alzheimers after the 2nd opinion.

 Incidently it only took the 2nd neurologist less than 10 minutes to determine I did not have Alzheimers.

It's possible you are only the second person in medical history to recover from Alzheimers. The other being General Pinocnet.

Pinocnet was one of the worse torturers in modern history.

I think this is a joke...

It was not funny at the time...

My neurologist was lucky I was not a revenge seeking person--I could have sued him.

This, I think, is true.

This is a much more trivial thing, but it was weird:

I was playing in an online game (a form of Nomic) with about 20-30 players from all over the English-speaking world.  One of the players, to support an in-game narrative, wrote up a fancy fake letter which had a real-world return address.  I looked at the address and thought, wow, if this were real it would be at the end of my block.  So I walked down to that house, put my head over the fence, and said to the guy working in the yard "Hey, are you [player's name]?"

Yep!  Figure the odds....

mkkuhner  Was he the person who wrote the fancy fake letter? 

Yes, but he is probably the living soul from the following story:

Two men both live to their early 90s when one ends up deadly ill.  The other comes to visit him one last time to talk about their memories.  He also asks the dying man one question.  "When you go to heaven, can you see if there is baseball in heaven?"  The dying man says "Sure, anything for my best friend."  He dies.  A couple of nights later, when the living man goes to bed, he hears his friend.  "I have good news and bad news for you.  The good news is that there is baseball in heaven!"  The living man asks "What is the bad news?", to which the response was "You are the scheduled starting pitcher for Wednesday's game!"

there's a chess version of it

You just felt like talking about this huh?

This story isn't chess.com per se. But it is chess.

Was in High school. Our team was playing in the schoolastic state championship.

My teammate next to me was having a very bad game. But then his opponent (call him MF) inexplicably blundered, and allowed my teammate to infiltrate with his wueen, and start checking him. While  teammate missed the winning line, he did manage to force a perpetual. So he said "It's a draw."  But MF disagreed. So my teammate played a few more checks, and said "I claim a draw by repetition of the position." 

MF said he couldn't do that, and went to get the TD. The TD looked over the score sheets, and said yes the position has repeated 3 times. A draw can be claimed there.

MF got all mad, tore up his scoresheet, and stormed off.

The next part I wasn't present for, but i heard about it. Was the next week. That tea m was plug a different team. This MF lost his game and resigned. But when his opponent reached across to shake his hand, MF grabbed his hand, pulled him across the table and decked him.

So about 2 week later , we were playing that same team. MF had been kicked off the team of course. But his younger brother had inherited his board. The match was just starting, we were maybe 8 moves in. MF walks in and tells his brother "Dad says you can come home now, or stay here forever!" So his brother shrugged, resigned, and left the room.

This would be good news to me!

In the chess version, I'm not sure if the bad news is that the guy will die or that he will play Capa with black pieces.

So, suffering of Alzheimer's disease makes it easier for your partner to get a divorce? It is not enough being a chess player?

That would not be needed. Anybody can divorce anybody.

 and I could have sued the neurologist!?

Anybody can divorce anybody without a reason. 

However if you have Alzheimer's you will probably lose custody of your kids.