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Are chessplayers different from ordinary people??? - 2007/02/05 12:22 Through the years I've met all kinds of enthousiastic chessplayers, mostly amateurs. Some very succesfull in life and others not, some rich and others poor. Some stupid, but others mostly clever.

But I always have the feeling that I have something in common with all these chessplayers, which I do not share with non-chessplayers. but I do not know what it is. I cannot put my finger on it.

Do chessplayers have something in common which makes us different from non-chess-enthousiatics?

What is it?



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Re:Are chessplayers different from ordinary people - 2007/02/05 12:24 Hello Aleksander Could it be that chess-players are strategists? What do you think?



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Re:Are chessplayers different from ordinary people - 2007/02/05 12:44

I don't think so. There are also strategists in other fields of live, business and military. But I don't connect to them as to chessplayers.

I am thinking that it could be a sort of recognition. Like when two mountain-climbers meet in a bar, even when they don't know each other they connect in some way, because they share the same experience of climbing. I am thinking something like that.

Does that sound strange?



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Re:Are chessplayers different from ordinary people - 2007/02/05 13:44 Not strange at all. As a matter of fact way more logical than my guess...

I wonder if this applies for other 'hobbiests' as well? Or would chessplayers be special at this point? I've seen complete strangers who were football-fans going crazy over football together. However, I'm not sure they found 'recognition' in each-other (?)



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