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Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind
Gerard Blake Offline
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22-05-2014, 07:52 PM
Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind

That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American.

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23-05-2014, 10:34 AM
That's how it still looks... 8-}
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24-05-2014, 02:49 PM
They're coming to take me away haha....
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"
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24-05-2014, 07:55 PM
If only..... :ymparty:
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24-05-2014, 08:47 PM
I like the bit about the 'young gentleman' pushing away the board at the end of the game and declaring the whole thing a waste of time that he was now giving up.

I wonder what the result of that game was...
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