On 02/20/2013 02:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing bad with playing chess, but it’s just a game and playing chess doesn’t give super cow powers. Being active does train our creativity, brains and muscles. Questionable if boxing or playing chess, is the more active exertion. There’s also nothing bad with inland water fishing. Also called a sport, but a sport with being less active. The rule is: “You snooze, you lose.” It’s not important what we like to do, it’s important that we do something. Listening to music A isn’t better, than listening to music B. Doing X isn’t better than doing Y. Where do all this claims come from? Some people playing chess are creative others aren’t, it has less to do with playing chess. -----Original Message----- From: linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Alf Haakon Lund Sent: Wed 2/20/2013 21:02 To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: The Psychology of Music On 20. feb. 2013 12:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:12:13 +0100, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> Ah, so IBM's chess-playing whiz computer is also an artist now? > > And it aways was called a "sport" :D. And often it's claimed that all > highly gifted people play chess :D. > > Perhaps done by people who like to play chess and who wish to be > artists, wish to be sportsman and wish to be highly gifted ;). Since I love playing chess I should probably feel insulted, but as the description kinda suits me, well, who am I to complain?
I also played chess - but we called it a game, not a "sport". But then, I also played pool, which is also a game, and it is called a sport. I never played golf and sometimes don't consider it a sport at all. Is skeet-shooting a sport? I don't believe it's ever been called a game, although it originally grew out of hunting aerial game ...
If you think of a game/sport as "solving a problem within rule constraints" - I think it would be quite possible for a particular game to be an elegantly done and executed solution to a problem.
A musician is also "solving a problem within rule constraints" (if nothing more than the musician's determination to express themselves using music vs carving a marble sculture).
So an elegantly done and executed game/sport contest could be just as much a work of art as a specific musical composition.
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