Playing better when stoned?
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Playing better when stoned-they only think they play better
Jan 20, 2018
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Monie49 wrote:
Playing better when stoned-they only think they play better
Exactly. But what the hell do they know? They're stoned!
Jan 20, 2018
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My time management becomes poor and I come up with beautiful variations with obvious flaws which I have overlooked.
Yes you come up with the most elaborate plans that are completely unsound.
"Stoned". Is this when they throw rocks at you if you suck at the game?
yes either that or smoke you out with some potent skunk buds
Jan 20, 2018
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Strangemover wrote:
My time management becomes poor and I come up with beautiful variations with obvious flaws which I have overlooked.
It's like coming up with a beautifully elaborate idea but overlooking the fact that your queen is hanging! Thinking so incredibly deep in such an imaginative way about a position while completely missing the obvious. That's what playing stoned gets you.
Chess is very material and concrete. It punishes the abstract with cold, ruthless realism. One of the reasons I'm hesitant to consider chess an art is because there is an objective "truth" to every position - no ambiguity, no interpretation. Correct play is something that's discovered and understood, but not created. Anything that takes away clarity of mind, even when heightening other senses, is going to be a severe liability as it pertains to the ability to play chess.
Dec 27, 2020
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What is better? Winning games? Complex tactical combinations? No blunders?
Ha. Maybe playing better = having more fun. There should be more to the game than a score cI certainly enjoy the game
Ha. Maybe playing better = having more fun. There should be more to the game than a score cI certainly enjoy the game
I've been hearing on the internet and youtube comments where people play better stoned so I thought I would ask if it's for real? For me personally, when I'm stoned I'll think that I'm thinking real deeply and seeing far but when I sober up I will realize that I was full of it. Drunk is even worse - I often times lose track of pieces colors and will move my queen directly into the line of fire because of pattern recognition misfiring or I'll check my own king (for the same reason).
At no point when inebriated am I better than when sober - and this is true for everything I do when inebriated. Sometimes I'll come up with what I think is the greatest idea of all time, but when I sober up I realize I was off in lala land and it was just stupid.
So I am skeptical that there is a person alive who plays better stoned. I'd go so far as to wager that there isn't such a player anywhere. Chess and clarity is very important - lose clarity, and you lose the game. And very quickly.