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| May-26-05 | | Backward Development: What particular composer/artist/band does everyone here think is the best choice to listen to while playing chess and what song in particular is their finest? Now we can maybe have an Unofficial Chessgames.com soundtrack? Composer-Beethoven
Piece-Symphony #7, 2nd movement or Moonlight Sonata, 1st movement. |
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| May-26-05 | | percyblakeney: <Backward Development> My choice: Cowboy Junkies - This Street, That Man, This Life |
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| May-26-05 | | Backward Development: <aw1988>
I'm glad to see the wolf again. It's much more distinctive.
;-) |
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| May-26-05 | | aw1988: If there were a Python avatar, I would dispatch of the wolf immediately. |
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| May-26-05 | | Akavall: Listening to music while playing chess, doesn't help me, it usually distracts me and I make stupid mistakes. But when working on the opening or thinking about a position in correspondence game, music can help me be more creative, I usually listen Iron Maiden. |
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| May-26-05 | | aw1988: I personally can't stand chess and music. I've tried "blitz and rap" but it only makes me hate blitz. Doesn't mix with me. Music and chess should be kept seperate. |
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| May-26-05 | | Akavall: I tried blitz and Slayer, was a bad idea. |
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| May-26-05 | | fgh: I will say that the last movement of Dvorak's 9th Symphony (The new world symphony) and Mahler are the most motivating types of music while playing chess. Try it out :-) |
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| May-27-05 | | BrownRecluse: I prefer Bach, especially the Goldberg variations. |
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| May-27-05 | | BaranDuin: One of my favourite songs to listen to while playing chess: Strawberry fields forever by The Beatles. |
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| May-27-05 | | Akavall: <BrownRecluse> Is that Kramnik on your avatar? |
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| May-27-05 | | hintza: I can't believe someone made a Joanna Lumley avatar. I really am quite genuinely shocked. Who would do such a thing? Ray perhaps? |
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| May-28-05 | | BrownRecluse: <Akavall> I was trying to find one that looked like Peter Lorre. |
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| May-29-05 | | fgh: <Backward Development>: Hmmm... Maybe the Fischer Symphony :-) Give me a few years and I will compose it :-) Or the Kasparov sonata in E minor, op. 56 :-) |
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Jun-14-05
 | | TheAlchemist: Just a curiosity, I'm not trying to spoil your fun, by any means... the correct pronounciation is "moosh-itch" |
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| Jun-30-05 | | arifattar: A long C Long Tim Reilly ago, I Ilia Abramovich Kan Robert Steel Rem Romanovsky ember how that T Music used to make me sMile Smolovic |
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| Jun-30-05 | | arifattar: Ofcourse one can go on but I have some more important stuff on hand at the moment. |
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Jun-30-05
 | | cu8sfan: <arifattar> What could possibly be more important than THAT??? (-: |
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| Jun-30-05 | | OneArmedScissor: Iron & Wine is good stuff to listen to when playing chess. Don't ask me why, but I scored 3.5/5 in a tournament which was predominately filled with players that had higher ratings than me. I was listening to Iron & Wine during each of the 5 games, so go figure.
http://www.ironandwine.com/ |
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| Jul-07-05 | | aw1988: So- favorite songs anyone? |
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| Jul-07-05 | | Cecil Brown: Current favourite is Gillian Welch singing 'One hundred years from now'. Quite cheery really, most unlike her normal stuff.
Available to download (legally) here:-
http://downloads.fastatmosphere.com... Whiskeytown's version of 'I hope it rains at my funeral' is a perennial favouite. I have to say my tastes are pretty obscure though. |
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| Jul-07-05 | | BiLL RobeRTiE: I find that listening to most music and playing chess at the same time is a bad idea - one can only pay attention to one at a time! Hence, I guess my choice of music while playing would be something pleasant and relaxing that doesn't require much concentration to enjoy, e.g. Mozart piano concertos, Brahms violin sonatas, or Schubert symphonies. Just something to calm the nerves (and to tickle the ear when you get distracted.) |
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| Jul-07-05 | | OneBadDog: Does this guy write the songs that make the whole world sing? |
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| Jul-07-05 | | hayton3: To my mind the structure and grace of classical music particularly suits the format of chess. My favourite is Mozart - the fanciful melody and quick rhythm of his early piano sonatas accompanies well a gambit opening. While the rhythm and orchestration of his later piano concertos are more involved, complex and life savvy; yet ready to bust into frivoulous melody at a moment's notice - just Like the Ruy Lopez |
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| Jul-07-05 | | OneBadDog: Capablanca and Mozart have often been compared to each other. |
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