Aristophanes Aristophanes, an ancient Athenian legislator, was impeached a total of 75 times, but never once convicted. The game of chess figured in a strange medical experiment. Count István Széchenyi, a famous Hungarian scientist in the 1800s, went insane. And the game of chess was prescribed as a possible cure. The idea being that concentration would help the brain. A young student was hired to play chess with the mad count. And they played for six long years. The count was cured. But the student went out of his mind. Believe It or Not!
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