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Offline EdLee
 Post subject: Urschel's math paper
Post #1 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:50 am 
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John Urschel's math paper :)

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Post #2 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:10 pm 
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Interesting! Not the paper (about which I haven't the foggiest) but the author. Thanks.

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 Post subject: Re: Urschel's math paper
Post #3 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:44 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Urschel's math paper
Post #4 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:11 pm 
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Okay, so he plays chess. What's the big deal?

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 Post subject: Re: Urschel's math paper
Post #5 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:01 pm 
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What's the big deal?
Ah, Doctor, your comments are always so heartwarming, so enthusiastic, so … motivational … come let me pull you to my hairy chest and hug you :-D

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 Post subject: Re: Urschel's math paper
Post #6 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:24 pm 
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Bonobo wrote:
DrStraw wrote:
What's the big deal?
Ah, Doctor, your comments are always so heartwarming, so enthusiastic, so … motivational … come let me pull you to my hairy chest and hug you :-D


Just like a bonobo. :D

But, sorry, couldn't resist. After all, this is a games forum so what other reason could there be for posting? :)

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 Post subject: Re: Urschel's math paper
Post #7 Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:25 am 
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DrStraw wrote:
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DrStraw wrote:
What's the big deal?
Ah, Doctor, your comments are always so heartwarming, so enthusiastic, so … motivational … come let me pull you to my hairy chest and hug you :-D


Just like a bonobo. :D
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But, sorry, couldn't resist. After all, this is a games forum so what other reason could there be for posting? :)
Well, Urschel was mentioned somewhere else in this forum for being a football player who wrote a math paper. I assume it’s mostly to document the fact that a person with a big and muscular body and who plays a very physical sport is not necessarily a stupid brute; I think it was just to dispel such prejudices.

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Oh, and of course it will probably also be b/c 1) Football is a game, and 2) this Football player apparently not only loves maths but also Chess.

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 Post subject: Re: Urschel's math paper
Post #8 Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:52 pm 
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I was talking the other day to someone who had actually seen Chess Boxing happen.

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Post #9 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:49 am 
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A friend of mine is a chess and Go player, and used to be a chess boxing referee. She no longer does it - a friend of hers (a chess player, not a boxer) was punched whilst refereeing at another event.

It may have been this incident:
http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Exeter-timekeeper-chess-boxing-match-guilty/story-21657935-detail/story.html
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