Alcohol + Chess = Bad or Good Idea?

Imagine getting so drunken while playing chess (lets say your rating is like 750) that you pass out and when you finally come to, people say you beat a maximum difficulty bot. And not by y'know dumb luck, you managed to beat it via checkmate.

Chances are basically a million to none here but hey, optomism i guess?

No. But it is optimism. 

XD

still a sad cat

yep

Your comment was actually pretty reasonable unlike a lot of earlier comments in the topic.

Alcohol mostly harms calculation... which isn't so important for most moves... and by lowering inhibitions it's easier to play faster.

For me, I'd say my performance rating vs people 100 points or lower increases after a few drinks... but the better someone is, the more I have to lean on calculation, and so the more alcohol hurts my results.

It's reasonable to have a lot of resentment towards addicts of any kind. They're extremely selfish, irresponsible, untrustworthy, manipulative...

Drinking alcohol doesn't automatically make you an addict though.

But a lot of them are regretting their decision and trying to stop.

Sure, and some people make careers out of helping addicts... which is also fine.

I'm saying, it's not that good to resent someone for a bad decision, because sometimes you get hooked after one time (not saying this out of personal experience of course) and then you're hooked.

Ok, but like I said, it's reasonable to resent certain types of people... all that this means is a reasonable argument can be made for doing so.

Let's try to use an example that's more familiar. Let's say the story was "I burned my hand in a fire and I cried a lot and my mommy wrapped up my hand" -- so I say it's reasonable to cry when you're hurt... and you come back with some people get hurt and don't cry, and some people cry when they're not hurt... ok that's nice, but that wasn't my point.

I know. It's just better to have sympathy for people than resent them.

It just depends on the situation.

Someone who has only sympathy or resentment towards everyone hasn't met very many people

I try not to judge too harshly, because when I do I seem to be misguided often.

I'm not supporting their actions, but think about it. You're born to a poor family in a bag place. You have no money and a rough childhood. You try drugs, get hooked. You can't make money, so you sell drugs. And basically you're stuck there, until you dike of overdose.

Die*

It's just one bad decision can turn your life around. Luckily I haven't yet been in a difficult situation of being offered something I shouldn't take, but I expect it would be hard to say no at times.

Well, that's not true... but whatever.

Yes, it's not always true.

But it's probably hard to get out.

     Research has shown that 1 or 2 drinks (how much depends on body size) per day is healthy. It aids relaxation, eases tension and helps keep blood pressure stable. Red wine has many health benefits, so a glass or two at dinner seems like the best idea.

     Excessive use of any drug usually leads to poor health outcomes. Regular heavy intake of alcohol is a mistake. An occaisional spree is harmless (except perhaps the next morning) but repeated overindulgence such as using a lot every time you play chess won't work out well, but one drink before playing may help you relax and play better.