ban chessboards

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by micky1up

after the recent blaming of computer games for recent multiple homocides i wonder will the PC brigade be making statement to the press about the russan serial killer that claims his chessboard led him to kill 62 people and want to kill 64 people surley if there is any consistency in the arguement they must or is it that multiple murderers where operating and getting there minds twisted long before the game's industry was even invented

That story I failed to notice. But like you tell it - he wanted to kill 64 because his chessboard with 64 squares told him so - this initially sounds like an extreme obsessional neurosis to me. The need to meet numerical demands in any way, are an often observed behavioral pattern amongst such patients. For them all heaven falls down if they do not follow the numerical rules, whatever they are like.

I wonder why he didn't stop after 16 (=16 pawns) or so. :hmm:

It goes without saying that if it is like i superficially assume, then we are talking about a seriously ill person, and the example in no way should be compared to the debate about killer games - what you probably already know yourself. Maybe he would have caught by the stones of the pavement, if it wouldn't have been the chessboard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessi...lsive_disorder

P.S. Better nobody dare to ban chess boards as long as I'm around!