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Russian Officials To Investigate Regional President's Alien Abduction Claims

Posted by samzenpus on from the mars-wants-to-play-chess dept.

wdef writes "The BBC reports that a Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a spaceship. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalymkia, made his claim in a television interview. Mr Ilyumzhinov said in an interview on primetime television that he had been taken on board an alien spaceship which had come to planet Earth to take samples — and claims to have several witnesses. He has been president of Kalmykia, a small Buddhist region of Russia which lies on the shores of the Caspian Sea, for 17 years. As president of the World Chess Federation, he has spent tens of millions of dollars turning the impoverished republic into a mecca for chess players — building an entire village to host international tournaments. MP Andre Lebedev is not just asking whether Mr Ilyumzhinov is fit to govern. He is also concerned that, if he was abducted, he may have revealed details about his job and state secrets."

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  1. It's Always the Chess Players by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do high profile chess players always have to go completely batshit crazy?

    Tomorrow we'll find out Kasparov has invented a "free energy" machine and historians have found a volume of letters from Paul Morphy claiming he controlled the moon.

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    1. Re:It's Always the Chess Players by Pojut · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's no different than a footballer or hockey player that has a broken body later on in life. Chess players use their minds like footballers and hockey players use their body.

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    2. Re:It's Always the Chess Players by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sympathetic to Fischer's plight, but reluctant to grant him the full benefits of citizenship, Icelandic authorities granted him an alien's passport.

      Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

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    3. Re:It's Always the Chess Players by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Congrats, that's the dumbest thing I've read this week.

    4. Re:It's Always the Chess Players by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nah, probably just another spent chess player.

    5. Re:It's Always the Chess Players by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Insightful? Seriously?

      Are the modders out of their fricking minds?

      They've probably played too much chess, or something.

  2. Re:I don't think it works that way, though by Bobfrankly1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think it works that way, though. There isn't evidence that using one's brain too much can cause the same kind of damage as pulling a muscle or twisting a knee does in more physical sports. On the contrary, there is a ton of evidence by now that it can actually delay the onset of the various forms of neuro-degeneration in the old age.

    But it may be that you already have to be not entirely normal up there in the first place to make it that far in chess.

    I was going to give this detailed retort, countering each and every one of your points, but I bruised my brain in the attempt. According to the examining physician, I may never think again...

  3. Re:I don't think it works that way, though by corbettw · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the examining physician, I may never think again...

    I know a site where you'll fit right in.

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