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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing bad with playing chess, but it’s just a game and playing chess doesn’t give super cow powers.<BR>
Being active does train our creativity, brains and muscles. Questionable if boxing or playing chess, is the more active exertion.<BR>
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There’s also nothing bad with inland water fishing. Also called a sport, but a sport with being less active.<BR>
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The rule is: “You snooze, you lose.” It’s not important what we like to do, it’s important that we do something.<BR>
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Listening to music A isn’t better, than listening to music B. Doing X isn’t better than doing Y. Where do all this claims come from?<BR>
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Some people playing chess are creative others aren’t, it has less to do with playing chess.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: linux-audio-user-bounces@lists.linuxaudio.org on behalf of Alf Haakon Lund<BR>
Sent: Wed 2/20/2013 21:02<BR>
To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<BR>
Subject: Re: [LAU] The Psychology of Music<BR>
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On 20. feb. 2013 12:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote:<BR>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:12:13 +0100, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com><BR>
> wrote:<BR>
>> Ah, so IBM's chess-playing whiz computer is also an artist now?<BR>
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> And it aways was called a "sport" :D. And often it's claimed that all<BR>
> highly gifted people play chess :D.<BR>
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> Perhaps done by people who like to play chess and who wish to be<BR>
> artists, wish to be sportsman and wish to be highly gifted ;).<BR>
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Since I love playing chess I should probably feel insulted, but as<BR>
the description kinda suits me, well, who am I to complain?</FONT>
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