Chess players on steroids???

[Metroid]

Agatha confessed that she had noticed some small, yet noticeable physical changes in her son over the past six months. "For one thing, he started to grow more hair; a lot of hair." she said. "I'm well aware that boys entering puberty are likely to experience changes in their bodies, but I saw Bobby in the shower one afternoon and his back was just covered with hair. He'd looked just like my brother, Leo and he's 67 years old.

what's up with that

Yeah who the hell checks out their 13 year old son while hes taking a shower?

[bobbing_headz]

The article is a joke you guys. C'mon, I thought you would have known better.

[beanoX3]

I notice you lettered in Chess. Interesting:

A varsity letter (or monogram) is an award earned in the United States by regular participation or excellence in a school sport. Traditionally, a varsity letter signifies that its winner was a stand-out varsity athlete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_letter

Letters in high school has VASTLY lost their original meaning. They give out letters for everything now, or at least my old high school district does. Letters for math team, volunteer clubs, band, orchestra, dance club, thesbians, etc. Even the volunteer trash cleanup kids got varsity letters for their jackets.

Maybe it's a conscious effort eliminate some of the reasons why high school cliques form or maybe it's just some school spirit thing, but that Wikipedia definition of the varsity letter is terribly out of date in my area.

[dgan]

CHECKMATE! AGAIN!!!!!



Damn steroids...

[lmcjaho]

Chess as an Olympic sport!?!?!? Gimme a f***in' break!

At least when they were making noise about getting billiards in the Olympics they were still talking about something that had the hand-eye coordination aspect of things...

[bobbing_headz]

Chess is a lame sport, but so is ping-pong and it's in the olympics.

[dgan]

"Sport" originated as either hunting or physical domination games, such as wrestling. Therefore, naming something an Olympic sport should be considered with that in mind, IMO.

"Games" began as war games -- chess would be in that class. This would involve competitions not defined under "sport".

The Olympics should revisit their own history before allowing some of this crap. Oh wait, I forgot...it is about money...silly me.

[Omaha Red Sox]

Chess is a lame sport, but so is ping-pong and it's in the olympics.

Ping pong requires movement. Key word - movement.

[bobbing_headz]

Chess is a lame sport, but so is ping-pong and it's in the olympics.

Ping pong requires movement. Key word - movement.

Well so does chess then. Movement of the hands and eyes

Besides, sometimes those games of chess with them clocks can get pretty fast.

[Simulacrum]

I could see chess players taking Adderall.. I believe that's the drug that college students abuse to stay up all night studying.