21 Feb
2013
21 Feb
'13
7:09 a.m.
On 02/20/2013 02:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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.
Being active does train our creativity, brains and muscles.
Questionable if boxing or playing chess, is the more active exertion.
There’s also nothing bad with inland water fishing. Also called a
sport, but a sport with being less active.
The rule is: “You snooze, you lose.” It’s not important what we like to
do, it’s important that we do something.
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?
Some people playing chess are creative others aren’t, it has less to do
with playing chess.
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On 20. feb. 2013 12:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I also played chess - but we called it a game, not a "sport". But then,
I also played pool, which is also a game, and it is called a sport. I
never played golf and sometimes don't consider it a sport at all. Is
skeet-shooting a sport? I don't believe it's ever been called a game,
although it originally grew out of hunting aerial game ...
If you think of a game/sport as "solving a problem within rule
constraints" - I think it would be quite possible for a particular game
to be an elegantly done and executed solution to a problem.
A musician is also "solving a problem within rule constraints" (if
nothing more than the musician's determination to express themselves
using music vs carving a marble sculture).
So an elegantly done and executed game/sport contest could be just as
much a work of art as a specific musical composition.
See what happens when you turn monkeys loose on the Internet? ;-)
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David
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:12:13 +0100, david
<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com>
wrote:
Since I love playing chess I should probably feel insulted, but as
the description kinda suits me, well, who am I to complain? Ah, so IBM's chess-playing whiz computer is
also an artist now?
And it aways was called a "sport" :D. And often it's claimed that all
highly gifted people play chess :D.
Perhaps done by people who like to play chess and who wish to be
artists, wish to be sportsman and wish to be highly gifted ;).