Ridiculous Descriptions
Keywords: Humour
Inspired by the quote below I would like make this page to record the most ridiculous descriptions of Go known to man.
- In C.N. 559 William Hartston (Cambridge, England) presented this quote from a 1960 paper by Dr Félix Martí Ibáñez: ‘To checkmate the opponent’s king in chess is equivalent to castrating and devouring him, becoming one with him in a ritual of symbolic homosexualism and cannibalistic communion, thus responding to the remnants of the infantile Oedipus complex.’
- Actually, this may be less ridiculous if you consider the context (e.g. if analysing dreams). However, that Oedipus is cannibalistic and homosexual is quite news to me, but killing the king (like Oedipus did) actually is what chess is all about. Shion no Ou is a shogi story pretty much centered about the "killing the king=father" theme. Tapir.
willemien: what does C.N.559 mean? (how easy to copy things whitout knowing what it means)