wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer) (04/20/84)
> This implies the existance of a similar game for chess - can you imagine > having to slug down an 8 oz tumbler's worth of 80 proof? Of course, > the game would tend to be self correcting - take to many pieces and > you find it difficult to think... whatever. > from the confused and bleeding fingertips of > ...!sequent!richard In fact, I recall having read once about just such a game. I don't recall whether it was a British peer or a wealthy international playboy who offered the challenge, but he challenged the world champion at the time to a game ``by my rules''. The champion accepted, figuring that whatever variation was going to be thrown at him couldn't be too bizarre that he couldn't figure it out on the fly and dismantle the pigeon. Pieces contained alcohol in approximate proportion to their actual value -- the pawns were shot glasses of liqueurs, bishops and knights were wine glasses, rooks were tumblers of liquor -- the challenger's queen was a fifth of Napoleon brandy. After a few moves, the challenger effectively ended the game by aggressively checking the champion with his queen in such a fashion that the only effective counter was to take the queen!!! The champion succumbed (in the game, anyway) in relatively short order thereafter. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy WAS here! ucbvax!wildbill
rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (Rob Buchner) (04/20/84)
The scenerio described where the wealthy challenger sacked his queen to the champion in the effort to win the game after the champion became "tipsy" was part of a movie I saw a number of years ago.