Driving while chessed

A number of years ago I had a strange experience while driving back to Canberra after a weekends chess in Sydney. I had a couple of junior players travelling with me, and to pass the time we decided to play some blindfold chess. The game was going along quite nicely until I realised I was travelling down an unfamiliar part of the highway. I was so engrossed in the game that I missed the turn off to Canberra just past Goulburn, and was no heading on the road to Melbourne. Fortunately there was a turn off further on, and extra fortunately, by taking the alternate route, we avoided long delays caused by an accident on the Federal Highway.
The obvious conclusion to draw was that while I was still able to pilot the car safely, I wasn't able to make higher level decisions, such as working out where I was going. Apparently this is similar to trying to drive with alcohol in your system.
Every now and then a similar kind of behaviour re-appears, although not connected with blindfold chess. If I have had a particularly exciting or difficult game at the club, I often find myself analysing the game as I drive home. A couple of times I've had to stop myself from doing it, in case I do something stupid like drive through a red light.
It happened again last evening after I managed to save a dead lost position at the ANU club. My opponent Adrian de Noskoswki found a nice tactic which won material, and running short of time I began to play some suspect moves. We then both missed a rook check which would have won the house for him, and in my time trouble he began to go astray. When he put his rook offside I began to create saving chances, and as it turned it I had just enough tempi to salvage half a point (with 20 seconds left I was happy enough with that btw).
Not a perfect game, but one with enough twists and turns to put me over the limit if the police decided to test how much of my brain was being used to control my car!


Press,Shaun - de Noskowski,Adrian [B26]
ANU Autumn Swiss, 23.05.2012

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. Nge2 Nge7 7. Be3 d6 8. O-O O-O 9. Qd2 Nd4 10. Nc1 Rb8 11. Nd1 Re8 12. c3 Ndc6 13. f4 f5 14. Ne2 b6 15. d4 fxe4 16. Bxe4 Ba6 17. dxc5 dxc5 18. Re1 Qc7 19. Qc2 Rbd8 20. Bf2 Nd5 21. Ne3 Kh8 22. Rad1 Nf6 23. Bf3 Bb7 24. g4 Nb4 25. cxb4 Bxf3 26. Bg3 Nxg4 27. Nxg4 Bxg4 28. bxc5 bxc5 29. Rxd8 Rxd8 30. Nc3 Bd4+ 31. Kg2 Qb7+ 32. Ne4 Bxb2 33. Rb1 Bf5 34. Qxb2+ Qxb2+ 35. Rxb2 Bxe4+ 36. Kf2 c4 37. Ke3 Bf5 38. Be1 Rd3+ 39. Ke2 Rh3 40. Bg3 c3 41. Rb8+ Kg7 42. Rb7+ Kh6 43. Rxa7 c2 44. Kd2 g5 45. fxg5+ Kxg5 46. Rc7 Kf6 47. a4 Rh5 48. Rc5 Rh6 49. a5 Rg6 50. a6 Rg8 51. a7 Rd8+ 52. Kc1 Rd1+ 53. Kb2 Be4 54. Rxc2 Rd7 55. Rf2+ 1/2-1/2