Alcohol + Chess = Bad or Good Idea?

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JackRoach

Jesus pal enough with the anti-alcohol rhetoric, smarter people than you have drank themselves into oblivion so get off the high horse and go get laid or something

 

Someone said that to me and blocked me.

Here's my response: jeez man. Stop with the "alcohol is good" act. Smarter people than you don't drink themselves to oblivion. Jump off that low donkey and stop hiding behind your blocking me.

AunTheKnight
JackRoach wrote:

Jesus pal enough with the anti-alcohol rhetoric, smarter people than you have drank themselves into oblivion so get off the high horse and go get laid or something

 

Someone said that to me and blocked me.

Here's my response: jeez man. Stop with the "alcohol is good" act. Smarter people than you don't drink themselves to oblivion. Jump off that low donkey and stop hiding behind your blocking me.

Lol. He doesn’t know the past participle of “drink.”

JackRoach
AunTheKnight wrote:
JackRoach wrote:

Jesus pal enough with the anti-alcohol rhetoric, smarter people than you have drank themselves into oblivion so get off the high horse and go get laid or something

 

Someone said that to me and blocked me.

Here's my response: jeez man. Stop with the "alcohol is good" act. Smarter people than you don't drink themselves to oblivion. Jump off that low donkey and stop hiding behind your blocking me.

Lol. He doesn’t know the past participle of “drink.”

Mine is pretty much the same, except I figured that saying someone had a low donkey is more insulting than saying someone has a high horse.

EscherehcsE
JackRoach wrote:

Jesus pal enough with the anti-alcohol rhetoric, smarter people than you have drank themselves into oblivion so get off the high horse and go get laid or something

 

Someone said that to me and blocked me.

Here's my response: jeez man. Stop with the "alcohol is good" act. Smarter people than you don't drink themselves to oblivion. Jump off that low donkey and stop hiding behind your blocking me.

Well, maybe you're pushing the issue a bit much, but it doesn't really bother me. (Maybe you're looking for an argument, idk?)

One could just say that drinking a little probably doesn't hurt anything from a physical perspective. (The religious aspect may be a different kettle of fish.) Drinking to excess risks damaging your liver and killing brain cells. Many young people think they're bulletproof and don't worry about what might happen 10, 20, or 30 years down the road. I was that way in my younger years. That's their choice.

Everyone knows about the link between heavy drinking and liver problems, but I'd bet almost nobody knows about the fructose issue that I mentioned earlier. I won't belabor the point - It's in my previous posts if anyone's interested.

JackRoach
EscherehcsE wrote:
JackRoach wrote:

Jesus pal enough with the anti-alcohol rhetoric, smarter people than you have drank themselves into oblivion so get off the high horse and go get laid or something

 

Someone said that to me and blocked me.

Here's my response: jeez man. Stop with the "alcohol is good" act. Smarter people than you don't drink themselves to oblivion. Jump off that low donkey and stop hiding behind your blocking me.

Well, maybe you're pushing the issue a bit much, but it doesn't really bother me. (Maybe you're looking for an argument, idk?)

One could just say that drinking a little probably doesn't hurt anything from a physical perspective. (The religious aspect may be a different kettle of fish.) Drinking to excess risks damaging your liver and killing brain cells. Many young people think they're bulletproof and don't worry about what might happen 10, 20, or 30 years down the road. I was that way in my younger years. That's their choice.

Everyone knows about the link between heavy drinking and liver problems, but I'd bet almost nobody knows about the fructose issue that I mentioned earlier. I won't belabor the point - It's in my previous posts if anyone's interested.

I don't really care about his argument.

 

I just found it cowardly that he blocked me so I couldn't answer, so I posted my response here.

NicBurgo

most things in moderation can have some sort of good effect on your health, like alcohol or psychedelics (weed, LSD, etc...)

but I'm not too sure that getting drunk and high will work miracles in chess play lol 

IntoxicatedOldGeezer
MEXIMARTINI wrote:
yuann wrote:
MEXIMARTINI wrote:
yuann wrote:
JackRoach wrote:
EscherehcsE wrote:
JackRoach wrote:
EscherehcsE wrote:
JackRoach wrote:

At least when I eat sugar I don't get drunk.

Good for your brain, but still just as bad for your liver, I'm afraid...

I'm sure alcohol is worse. It's basically "adult candy," I guess.

 

Because normal sugar can't cut it.

Yes and no.

Alcohol could be worse, because it's both an acute poison to the brain and a chronic poison to the liver. Sugar is only a chronic poison to the liver.

However, one could argue that sugar might be worse, since alcohol is self-limiting - If you drink yourself under the table, you stop drinking. But you can eat sugar all day long, nonstop.

Well, there's a reason sugar is allowed for kids and not alcohol. 

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Maybe because alcohol can also be extremely addictive 

 

NAAAAAAA....this is going on my christmas list....for your mom.

 

ahh sry man, bad news, my mom never does alcohol, but my mom is probably smarter than ur mom (also let's just stop talking about this for now)

 

NOPE

 

Bottoms up!

 

IlcultodiSaturno

Depends by where you play. I'm a Pup Player, so yes i drink while i play. But I play against someone who is drinking too.

CristianoRonaldosuuu

I HIGHLY RECCOMEND DRINKING DURING A CHESS GAME BUT ONLY IF UR AGE 12 OR OVER

MARattigan

Good idea. Numbs the pain of losing.

EscherehcsE
MARattigan wrote:

Good idea. Numbs the pain of losing.

But the downside is that you might not remember the games you win. Eh...

Amuricah

Rick C132 would agree

MARattigan
royalknight101 wrote:

Being drunk doesnt matter in Blitz, Bullet, or rapid but its still stupid 

What is? Blitz, Bullet, or rapid or being drunk?

MARattigan

Don't know if that's actually cleared up the ambiguity. I'll look at it again when I'm sober. (If and when I should say.)

HansSchmendrick

I play horribly with even one glass of wine--it really upsets my concentration. It always amused me that people who smoke pot and play often think they are geniuses. But when you watch them play it's another story. One pothead I know has convinced himself that the whole idea of white having the initiative by virtue of having the first move is mistaken! He has thus developed his own opening system that frankly is very passive. But he is an addict and the pot has eroded his brain cells. Tal was said to have been a big drinker. 

OBIT

At one time I was a member of a chess club that shared its building with a bar.  Now, I thought it was a great benefit to club membership - a member could walk into the bar, order a beer, and bring it back to the club.  Drinking a beer as you played was perfectly acceptable.  As for how consuming a beer affected your play, well, if you started hanging pieces like crazy you could take that as as indication you'd had too much to drink that evening.  Kept in moderation, though, I don't think it had a significant impact on your play.  One club member even claimed his blitz chess improved after a couple of beers, saying he spent less time looking at complex ideas and just focused on playing natural moves. 

yuann

Random thing I found, I wonder what is this? CLICK

llama47

A lot of kids who have never tasted alcohol are commenting in this topic...

EscherehcsE
llama47 wrote:

A lot of kids who have never tasted alcohol are commenting in this topic...

Opinions are like a......., everyone has one. :-)

25GSchatz22

Alcohol + Chess skills = Chess Brah