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Chess? Well, you're making the wrong comparison. Football is like war. War is two things: Extended, pointless boredom, and short bursts of energy and terror and injury, all of which is encompassed by years of unseen strategic, economic, logistical, and tactical planning.

Chess is some freak memorizing combinations of opening moves from past games.



Saying: "Chess is some freak memorizing combinations of opening moves from past games."

Is about as accurate as saying: "NFL Games Have 11 Minutes of Action"

And incidentally, chess also happens to be a game about war.


chess also happens to be a game about war.

So is the game RISK. But the actual relationship of both games to war is exactly nothing.


George Will famously said "Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings."




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