[lbo-talk] Walmart flak Andy Young joins the Gibson-Allen brigade

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Charles Brown writes: 
>CB: I was just thinking last week that with nuclear weapons in the world,
>if we analogize chess to war, then it would be as if there was a new chess
>rule by which if a certain configuration of pieces on the board was reached,
>both players would have to commit suicide. 

But one of the players would have to make the move *into* that position, like 
moving into check.  At least both players are playing the same game, perhaps 
an advance over the cold war situation in which it was said that while the 
Soviets were playing chess, the US poker.  In the 80's my dad updated Careers, a 
bestselling board game he invented in the 50s -- one of the new features was 
that you could, with luck and dedication, go into politics, get elected 
president, enter the 'war room,' and start World War III, ending the game.  But you 
would only win if you set out to be just such a megalomaniac from the first, 
creating a success formula which amounted to spending your 'life' seeking 
nothing but power.  

Jenny Brown