🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 03:46 PM UTC:
You could play it here, but the time delays of online play would reduce the
effect, and without being together in person, you couldn't tell whether
the other person was really drinking. Even if you played live with
webcams, you couldn't verify that what the other person was drinking was
really alcoholic, since you couldn't smell it. Now, let me offer as a
modest proposal a variation on this theme. Chess is a mental sport, and
alcohol harms the mind. In physical sports, we could apply this same idea
but harm the body. For example, when someone hits a homerun in baseball,
someone could smack him in the legs with a bat. This would allow minor
leaguers to more easily compete with major leaguers, and it would probably
be very entertaining to spectators.
