>79% of Chess Grand Masters are afflicted by at least one mental illness
Scary
>>46511227
Garry Kasparov believes in this shit:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_%28Fomenko%29
>>46511227
Not surprising, you have to have something wrong with you to actually enjoy chess.
>>46511227
Most intellectuals and artists have some sort of mental illness. This is nothing new.
Playing chess does a huge toll on you, mentally. Bad losses quite often drive serious players to suicide, even. I'm only a 2000, but I can tell you that if I lose a bad game, it'll haunt me for days, if not weeks. Honestly, I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
>>46511227
I've heard this too. Some chess champ related a story where he said the toughest opponents he ever faced were loners he found in random cities across the globe -- the kind of guys who have their own chess sets and play random strangers, and demand you play them over and over until they beat you. Autism at its finest.
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>>46511227
Where are you getting this statistic?
I feel like grand masters of anything would probably have some kind of OCD at the very least
if some turbo nerd built a fucking computer that could defeat me at a game that had taken my entire life to master, i'd go a little bit crazy too.
fortunately, the field of masturbating robot research has lagged far behind in comparison to other industries
>>46515848
>if some turbo nerd built a fucking computer that could defeat me at a game that had taken my entire life to master, i'd go a little bit crazy too.
If you break then, what would you do when phones get powerful enough that they can beat you ?
>fortunately, the field of masturbating robot research has lagged far behind in comparison to other industries
About that:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/touching-a-robots-private-parts-arouses-humans-160406.htm
>>46511227
>79% of Chess Grand Masters are afflicted by at least one mental illness
>Scary
Almost every person has mental illnesses we do not even know about, heck 1 generation ago if you had Autism or ADHD the scientific society concluded that you are a completely healthy and normal person and you just are just a basic asshole that needs a good spanking to get in line.
>>46511227
50% of people area aficted by at least minor mental illness.
>>46511279
>Fomenko
My father personaly know sthat guy and he also believes the research is genuine.
