Then there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_City ..which gets sort of interesting when considering the form

Then there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_City ..which gets sort of interesting when considering the former Kalmykian president who was an avid supporter of the above, but claims to have been taken for a ride to another planet in an alien spaceship[1]. I strongly doubt chess rots the mind, but considering the above, my own eccentricities and past infatuation with chess, it may do queer things to it. I hope to meet Go playing aliens myself, and perhaps have a few games on a pulsar, with a bit of ergot, green tea, and scopolamine as needed. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov#UFO_experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov#UFO_experie... edit: italics