I admit it

Dec 27, 2005

These chess games are getting a little silly.

Previous contests have been between Immanuel Kant and David Hume, and Tobias Smollett and Ernst Gombrich.

Comments

on 2005-12-27 21:09:04.0, James commented:

Please. I think it's safe to say that Hume would slaughter Kant. Would Kantian ethics permit the Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit? Wasn't that Heidegger's central concern in Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik?

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and, further, on 2005-12-27 21:12:53.0, ben wolfson commented:

Hume did win, but it wasn't exactly a slaughtering. Kant was way up early on and then made a tactical blunder, evening the field, and then another later in the game.

Smollett, on the other hand, dominated.

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and, further, on 2005-12-27 21:34:18.0, James commented:

Gombrich is often off his game.

André Malraux v. Louis Aragon?

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