Tipsy....mmm

How does a person play chess while drunk? They should do a test on the best chessplayers in the world, make them drunk and let them have a chess fight.. mwhahah (Evil laugh)

Badly.

It's hard to play drunk, but for some of us it takes a lot of alcohol to get drunk if you've been drinking for 20 years;)

A friend and I used to play while drinking. It was difficult to tell if the alcohol mattered; we played badly either way. The conversation was different, however; he kept describing the Bishop's Gambit in physical terms: "Pick up the bishop, target your opponent's head just above the ear" and so on. I miss those days. He became a government worker, and you never know for sure what part of the brain they'll decide to remove as part of the intake process. I'll never see him again.

My chess club meets in a bar, so I'd say from experience that not only is it really hard to make a decent move when drinking too much, it's really, really hard to pair the 4th round of a 10-player swiss.

Now if you only have a little, it doesn't seem to have much effect.

how did tal and alekhine play chess drunk? :D

A drunk GM may play less well, but he's still a GM. Knock 200 points of these guys' playing strength and they're still better than most.

I couldn't play drunk. I get hyperactive when I'm drunk.

haha

I only drink orange juice before I play chess

I wouldn't know about alcohol but I always smoke a few joints before a game. Never played sober , so I can't tell the difference

Who only has "a little"?!?

Da Noobs ;)

It was too awkward to formulate a sentence like ...before having too much from the first pitcher...

I consider it cheating not to drink 

The more you drink , the WC .

What did the double-u see?

A vomiting face .. or worse ..

i have been studying this important topic!  scotch or armagnac seem to help slightly, whereas cheap wine and even expensive beer have a slight negative effect.  i once knew a guy who played much better on very small doses of lsd.  small amounts of marijiuana make me prone to hanging stuff in one game, and make me relatively a positional genius in the next one.  coffee seems to be better than tea, but it has to be very good coffee... more research is needed, on all fronts... anyone want to fund it?... perhaps we could get a grant of some sort. :)

I won several chess games against a master I knew (normally much stronger than I), but only when he was under the influence of alcohol (I was sober each time). I've noticed that I play much worse after drinking. The simple explanation is that alcohol lowers our inhibitions, making us more daring and less cautious, which chesswise results in unsound aggressiveness, and failure to notice weaknesses in our own position.