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Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind
That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American.
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That's how it still looks... 8-}
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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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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...