Bantari wrote:
Looking at most of present-day music scene, I would dispute this quote. Most of them seem absolutely nuts!
You use a derogatory colloquial term ("nuts") in a discussion about mental deficits incurred from go-playing.
It is also not clear which demographic you're attempting to flout in this context: do you mean the likes of Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber? Maybe J-Pop/K-Pop etc.? Or do you mean stuff like 12-tone music and serialism? Maybe you're referring to
this?
I would like to invite everyone to learn that following aesthetic guidelines deviating significantly from the societal norm is not a criterion for "insanity".
The proverbial turd-on-a-canvas, being decried by the majority of the populace as an affront to everything decent and lofty and held up by a minority of self-appointed "artists" as a contemporary avantgarde master-"piece", while seeming eccentric to most of us, is certainly not an indicator of mental illness, of either its creator or its admirers.
(Neither is
dada-poetry.)
Discussing "madness", maybe people should be more cautious about clearly defining what they are actually talking about, and, subsequently, make a sharp differentiation between causation and correlation when it comes to analyzing which field of study is prone to which kind of mental disorder.
Personally, I don't think chess and go are sufficiently different to warrant a distinction investigating what makes the player-base of either game more susceptible to whatever type of mental dysfunctions. Surely, things that make chess-players "go crazy" would also apply to go-players.
But frankly, I haven't heard anything interesting so far. (Apart from colourful anecdotes like the antics of the late Bobby Fischer, which, IMHO, are more due to the celebrity-status he was put in coupled with his personality, than anything chess-related.)
At any rate, this thread reminded me of the
Schachnovelle. It's a nice little read, but rather off-topic, as the "insanity" described in that piece is not owing to chess at all.
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