Why do chess players go crazy

By age nine, he was a local legend. Having conquered America, Morphy sailed to Europe where he quickly become a cultural sensation, winning chess games and being feted in royal courts and fashionable social circles. In , Morphy returned home an American hero.

Toasting him at a special dinner in Boston, Dr. The Civil War, which began shortly after his return to New Orleans, curtailed his chess playing and social life.

He tried to carve out a career as a lawyer, but his obsessive talk about chess drove potential clients away. After the war, Morphy became a local curiosity, wandering the streets of New Orleans, loudly talking to himself or exploding in some persecution rant. His behavior grew so erratic that friends attempted to commit him to the Louisiana Retreat, a local mental asylum.

Fighting any attempt at institutionalization, Morphy threatened to sue his friends, family and the Catholic Church. During the Russian Revolution, he skipped out on his military duty to the Imperial government by complaining about an invisible fly on his head. His chess career was also assisted by his occasional bouts of madness. I hope that I understand, because in english Im biginer :- Cuba Aug 1, 4.

Aug 1, 5. Aug 1, 6. Aug 1, 7. Maybe the pecentage of chess players that go 'mad' is lower than your percentage of mad folk in everyday life, therefore, chess is a cure : Sight and sound deprivation drives people mad.

Oh, right, you weren't talking about torture - sorry I've strayed off topic :. Aug 1, 8. Aug 1, 9. Aug 1, No, chess dose you good gets your brain working. TheMoonwalker wrote: Hello, I have heard of a lot of GM's that get crazy after having spent a whole life on chess, e. Aug 2, Hehe ok, but you also sleep, right? Log In or Join. Forums Hot Topics. Most Recent. Is it safe to go out to play chess tournaments? Ziryab 6 min ago. Carlos was a Mexican Grandmaster. His unusual proclivity was to take all of his clothes off at the drop of a hat , drop of a king, drop of anything that caught his fancy, really.

He once caught a bus while completely naked and was arrested for streaking through the streets with not a stitch on him to cover his modesty. Balinas is a Filipino Grandmaster and while by all accounts his behavior was quite normal most of the time — he once arrived at a match in against Jeremy Silman when he poured a tiny amount of tea and poured it into a pint of honey and then drank the lot down.

Bobby Fischer had surrendered his world title without a fight and Karpov had won by default as the proud champion of the USSR. Korchnoi, on the other hand, was a Russian defector, and thus, there was some serious hate between the two parties by the time they arrived in Baguio in the Philippines to play chess. Then Karpov complained that the mirrored surfaces were bliding him during his game. Korchnoi, not to be outdone, then decided to object to Karpov eating yogurt, insisting that the flavors were coded messages!

Then Karpov had Validimir Zukhov sit in the front row of guests and stare at Korchnoi and it worked, Korchnoi confessed it really put him off his game. Now there was a sore loser. Mar 20, David-Neff wrote: well, they were certainly sore losers. Maybe a better comparison would between Fischer and Chucky. Of course I never heard Kasparov was nuts. Log In or Join. Forums Hot Topics. Most Recent. Is it safe to go out to play chess tournaments? Ziryab 6 min ago.

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