I do not drink at all, not even socially. Alcohol can do strange things to people. Here is a famous video that has been shown worldwide today involving alcohol. I also do not smoke at all. I believe in eating healthy and proper exercise.
Camera Catches Officer Beating Bartender
AP
CHICAGO (March 21) – An off-duty police officer in street clothes was caught on video by a bar surveillance camera beating up a female bartender half his size after she cut off his drinks, authorities said.
Anthony Abbate, a 12-year veteran of the Chicago force, was charged with aggravated battery and placed on leave pending an internal investigation in the attack Feb. 19 as several bystanders watched, department spokeswoman Monique Bond said Wednesday.
The video from Jessie’s Short Stop Inn Tavern, shown on television around the nation, shows the 250-pound Abbate shouting at the 115-pound bartender, then walking behind the bar and punching, kicking and throwing her to the ground.
Here is the video and full story.
Everything in moderation is my policy. I eat very healthy and that incudes a few drinks every week.
Red wine and Guiness beer have many healthy properties. AS long as you don’t overdo it as that eejit obviously did.
Alcohol usually only does strange things to strange people.
They say World Champion Mikhail Tal smoked and drank. Also maybe Alexander Alekhine did ?
Yes, I knew that Alekhine had serious problems with alcohol. But I dont understand how someone could play chess as well as Alekhine did, drinking a lot.
I don’t drink either.. but I know chessplayers who swear the play better when drunk!!
Boris Spassky was a chain smoker too!
I agree with Susan about healthy diet and proper exercise. It is good to see the standard that Susan sets for herself as a role model.
I do drink but I only do so at most on one or two nights a week and often do not drink for weeks. I set and keep a limit of two drinks a night whenever I go out (I have broken this only once, at a dinner party where I had 3) in order that I do not get drunk. I try to avoid drinking quickly or on an empty stomach for the same reasons.
I have never been drunk, smoked or used drugs and when I have children I want to tell them of my own record as an example for them.
I greatly enjoyed reading Capablanca’s letter, thank you for posting it.
sorry about, but i can not resist:
i admit: i’m a sinner!
my full admiration is with all the well-doing and well-living and never taking the bait people i’ve managed to meet in the internet…
i’m a sinner, only: i smoke a lot, i drink a lot, i think a lot – i poke a lot – so, there is a good chance to get rid of me, in foreseeable times…
but – i’m quite sure – you’ll miss me, won’t you 🙂
of course – NOT!
smirking and still LIVING
yours Vohaul
>>I do not drink at all, not even socially. Alcohol can do strange things to people.
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And that’s fine that you don’t. But if you abstain out of fear that you’ll turn into some violent animal, I think that’s pretty unlikely. Alcohol doesn’t make a non-violent person violent. But it might make a violent person less inclined to hide his true nature. This guy wasn’t Dr. Jekyll, turned into Mr. Hyde by a few drinks. He was really Mr. Hyde at heart all along and just did a good job covering it up.
I am with Michael c.m., everything with moderation is ok.
I have not an alcohol free policy,and I drink about ten beers every month(at the weekends with my friends)
From my own experience:
1)My first Fide rated game was against a foreign IM(I do not want to share his name,because now he is dead) and he was absolutety drunk…well, I defeated him and I paid the taxi in order to send him back to his hotel.
2)In a championship played ten years ago, a GM was ok in the morning,but absolutely drunk playing his games, at the afternoon.
I was surprised the initial rounds:he does not buy alcohol,then he must drink in our hotel…
One day,I was eating in a table close to him,his glass was full of wine,but always full,never with less wine and I thought…how can he be drunk without drink? but I was wrong…each time he was drinking THE FULL GLASS and serving other full glass,until he finnished the bottle and asked for other.
That GM has serious health problems now,caused by alcohol.
The IM dead and him were close friends and enjoyed too much the spanish summers.
No names!I want just to share what happens if you do not control the alcohol.
Lovely and loving letter from Capablanca. Good man! Drunkenness is surely a vice to avoid. I’ve heard chess can also be addictive… Wide culture for men like Thomas Jefferson includes an appreciation of good wine. He liked Chateau Margaux. 1996 is wonderful, and 1990 even better. Try it!!! Few of us could afford to get drunk on either vintage! And we must not forget the wonderful woman of Burgundy who makes Domaine LeRoy!
I would rather chose my pleasures wisely than avoid them. Even if you prefer asceticism, please watch the achingly beautiful silent film, “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” The immoderate boldness and unsurpassed purity displayed so eloquently in this film would warm the heart of either an ascetic or an admirer of a life of “passion.” (of course meant in the fundamental way, as in the St. Matthew’s Passion)
Anonymous Frank
“Alcohol free is my policy”
Heck yes, I would go to any bar that offered free alcohol.
I’m gonna go open a beer.
Has there ever been a professional chess player who was open about marijuana use? Probably not too good an idea for anyone making a career out of mental acuity, but–as a casual player–I must admit that I do thoroughly enjoy the occasional game of high chess.
But, just sometimes, a beer and a cigarette are just what you need….
@last anonym – and – of course – a good game of chess! but you forgot to mention it …
i’m with you: i’ve boycotted playing otb chess for more than 10 years after the setup of the “anti-Tal rule – no smoking otb allowed!” by FIDE…
indeed – smoking can do harm to me and other people’s health – non smokers – for example.
however, driving cars, the use of petrol oil to produce heat, the use of char cole to produce electricity, the use of nuclear fisson to produce whatever… etc. … etc. … and last but not least the allowance to wear and use weapons, is much more dangerous to the health of anybody, than smoking cigarettes or drinkin’ alcohol (please don’t ask Charlton Heston for further discussions…)
greetings
the world drives crazy – and we are the drivers…
just my two pence …