Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:45:34 03/18/00
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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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