re: #725 DisturbedEma

I guess I always thought of it as a bit of satire and a bit of mania…even in a city filled with carnal fun- chess “gamers” were in the zone…and satire on the whole gender meaingins involved in what it meant to be any gamer in the 80s- if you were not a jock or a prep, you were…well, ya know…

What was it that Chandler said about the game?

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

yeah, but it is addictive.