Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:57:20 03/19/00
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The other thing is that if you have a "big head", it usually means you're full of yourself. So I think the big head thing suits Kasparov nicely. About your brain size observations... it's kind of funny that some people think that memorizing stuff increases the size of your brain which in turn increases the size of your skull. I agree, the notion is absurd. However, I wouldn't be surprised at some _small_ correlation between skull/brain size and intelligence. The thing that separates us from apes IS brain size... -Tom On March 18, 2000 at 19:42:24, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On March 18, 2000 at 13:45:59, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>Well Fenando: Thing is, I was just making a funny anology. In the tv show, they > > > >I Know, I know, I was just recalling some ocious facts stimulated by your >entertainign post. By the way, this Shaftner is a kind of character that has >ever produce to me some laugh: old, weary, tired and not too much witted and >nevertheless stubbornly rescuing the universe. Well, there are worts soap operas >after all. :-) >Fernando >>have this comma >nder guy played by John Lithgow, who is the Supreme Commander. >>But the group of Aliens sent to investigate Earth have to report back to this >>guy, played, not inaprobriately by William Shatner (who you may recall, played >>the swaggering commander of the Starship Enterprise, James T. Kirk), the Big >>Giant Head. I think it makes as much sense that Aliens would not call thier >>total compleat leader, President or King or what ever, but would have thier own >>title, translated to english as, BIG GIANT HEAD. I feel that way about >>Kasparov. Fide World champion is too small a title for him... >> >>Larry T. >> >> >>On March 18, 2000 at 12:45:34, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi Larry: >>>I agree with you, but let me add an anecdote to entertain your leisure: Bobby >>>Fisher, whom, according to your definition, was a very big head of the game in >>>the 60's, has, in fact, a somewhat small or at most average real head. >>>Incredible enough, the old and preposterous asociation between intelectual >>>perfomance and size of the skull still keeps an stand, at least in the current >>>verbal usage. Sometimes the usage goes beyond. Two or three days ago I saw a >>>aparently serious CNN note about the big heads of taxi drivers in London and >>>they said such thing happened because they were more intelligent, compelled, as >>>they are, to memorize thousands of streets and so "trainning" his brain. So the >>>argument went: you memorize streets, so you train your intelligence, so the >>>brain grows, so the skull grows also. Funny; a soft thing bending a very hard >>>thing. Another anecdote: Anatole France, a french man of letter gifted with >>>great talent, maybe genius, had a so small head that his bran weighed more or >>>less like that of an ape. The same with Joseph Haydn. And the biggest brain ever >>>collected when collection of brain was in fashion was propiety of an idiot. So >>>maybe your clasification should be called not the "big head" of chess, but the >>>best head of chess. Sorry for these: just weekend ruminations. >>>Cheers >>>Fernando
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