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Telegraph wrote:It is thought alcohol hinders analytical thinking and allows 'creative' thoughts that might otherwise by stifled to take root, allowing test subjects to come up with more imaginative solutions.
Of course, the point was a little alcohol to overcome the inhibition of creativity, without an excess to wreak havoc on all intellectual faculties!Roger de Coverly wrote:Hartston once suggested that Alekhine's creative play in his 1935 match was down to being as off form as a newt.
I'd like to see somebody trying that defence at the Magistrates Court after failing a roadside breathalyser.Paul McKeown wrote:Of course, the point was a little alcohol to overcome the inhibition of creativity, without an excess to wreak havoc on all intellectual faculties!Roger de Coverly wrote:Hartston once suggested that Alekhine's creative play in his 1935 match was down to being as off form as a newt.