mykingdomforanos wrote:
i once putted a pawn from 10 yards but was unsure what to promote it to. i did raise my hand in the air for the crowd though (my dog and 2 cats).
Did they at least meow?!?
to you, which is better between golf and chess?
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Hands down, chess. You can play chess until you're dead. Golf? Until you run out of cash (which will be soon for all of us when we become seniors)
FlintLockwood wrote:
Chess is just a game that goes down well with a few beers and a bit of time to kill, while golf is a way of life ,in fact golf is like life.
I don't play many games anymore where beer doesn't go well with it. In golf, it can sure help you forget about your last crummy shot.
ll3599 wrote:
Hands down, chess. You can play chess until you're dead. Golf? Until you run out of cash (which will be soon for all of us when we become seniors)
The day I run out of money to golf is the day I'm dead.
ll3599 wrote:
Hands down, chess. You can play chess until you're dead. Golf? Until you run out of cash (which will be soon for all of us when we become seniors)
Where the hell is everyone getting this from. I would assume they are non-golfers. Have you ever seen a golf course at 8am during the week? There is practically nobody under the age of 65 on there.
Public courses offer senior discounts, just like a bus pass. If you play in the right place, golf can be extremely cheap.
Hell, if you have a senior pass and play on a weekday, it costs the same as a pint of beer.
People seem to have the impression that all golf is played at St Andrews or Pebble beach at £500 a round. It isn't.
Public courses are extremely cheap. The one nearby here is £5 for a round (I go and get in 9 holes or use the driving range at lunch time now and again). That's £5 for anywhere between 2.5-4.5 hours of entertainment (depending on your skill level). There are very few places left where you can have a whole afternoon's worth of an activity you enjoy for £5.
The clubs are a one off purchase and, as stated above, can be bought very cheaply.
Like chess, it is as expensive as you waqnt to make it. I could buy a £10k chess board, would that make it a rich man's game? Of course not, because you will always be able to by a roll out matt and a cheap set of plastic pieces.
The same goes for tournaments. You could travel round the world paying huge entrance fees or, you could go to your local club and enter one for a few pounds.
They watch Tiger Woods on an immaculate course infront of thousands of people, or doctors and businessmen on films playing at their country clubs and make the assumption this is what all golf looks like. It isn't.
mykingdomforanos wrote:
then there's my free backyard course made of submerged cans.
Any open tee times for Saturday?
AlCzervik wrote:
In my view, golf is the most difficult sport there is, and I've played nearly all of them. I mean, the ball is just sitting there, saying "hit me!" There are different clubs to hit the idle ball any distance you need!
Mate.....you should try windsurfing, not sailboarding, in fresh winds and waves. Choosing what combination of board, fin and sail to use is the equivalent of picking the club out of your bag for the shot you want to play. And that is done on the beach, before you enter a dynamic environment of wind and water. Make a mistake on a wave and the consequences aren't just a lost ball. It can be anything from a swim to broken mast or sail to broken bones.
Golf is just an expensive walk in the park
FlintLockwood wrote:
In golf you get to wear cool outfits and date awesome chicks ,retrieve golf balls out of the pond ,walk in the woods, drive around in those little cars -it is a multi skill sport .In chess you mainly have to deal with body odors and people dressed like bums ,mumbling under their breath and using terms like 'zugzwang '
It is also far easier to slip an extra ball or two up your sleeve and use them than say a knight or a rook.
If this were post #2, we would have been in Off Topic already. Thread answered.
Flint, you record a double bogey for waiting.
maybe a few of you can create a large enough golf coarse were you need put the pieces on a tee and whack the chess pieces into play ?
That is a very strange comparision.
Getting the opportunity to play golf is nothing that is easylie doable. I played exactly 1 round of golf in my whole life. And it was only possible because the place where I was on holiday that time had a golf course.
I did enjoy it though. There was nature, fresh air and I felt kinda good about managing to get some holes in 4 moves (most of them where par 3 or even 2 but as a total beginner 4 felt very good already).
Chess, on the other hand, is extremely easy to access nowadays. Can play it on your phone while taking a dump. Also it has the tendency to become more than just a game if you get into it.
So given another easy opportunity to play golf, I would probably do it. But driving like 50 km to the closest course on a regular basis is nothing I would want to do.
astronomer999 wrote:
AlCzervik wrote:
In my view, golf is the most difficult sport there is, and I've played nearly all of them. I mean, the ball is just sitting there, saying "hit me!" There are different clubs to hit the idle ball any distance you need!
Mate.....you should try windsurfing, not sailboarding, in fresh winds and waves. Choosing what combination of board, fin and sail to use is the equivalent of picking the club out of your bag for the shot you want to play. And that is done on the beach, before you enter a dynamic environment of wind and water. Make a mistake on a wave and the consequences aren't just a lost ball. It can be anything from a swim to broken mast or sail to broken bones.
Golf is just an expensive walk in the park
I guess us golfers miss the dynamic environments you mention. Unless you include environment. Oh, wait! You did! How about this?
Don't slip!
Or, these hazards.
Or lightning.
AlCzervik wrote:
astronomer999 wrote:
AlCzervik wrote:
In my view, golf is the most difficult sport there is, and I've played nearly all of them. I mean, the ball is just sitting there, saying "hit me!" There are different clubs to hit the idle ball any distance you need!
Mate.....you should try windsurfing, not sailboarding, in fresh winds and waves. Choosing what combination of board, fin and sail to use is the equivalent of picking the club out of your bag for the shot you want to play. And that is done on the beach, before you enter a dynamic environment of wind and water. Make a mistake on a wave and the consequences aren't just a lost ball. It can be anything from a swim to broken mast or sail to broken bones.
Golf is just an expensive walk in the park
I guess us golfers miss the dynamic environments you mention. Unless you include environment. Oh, wait! You did! How about this?
Don't slip!
Or, these hazards.
Or lightning.
Looks like where I go cycling...nice steep hills near the ocean. No alligators, but occassional red bellied black snakes sunning themselves on the road. They're hard to see, being black on a black background .
I do wonder how much faster you would die if you got bitten with your pulse rate already up to 150 or so
FlintLockwood wrote:
Golfers are 16 000 000 times more likely to get struck by lightning on the course than chess players are to admit that only 0.03 % of them will ever be grandmasters.
The dangers,cars,outfits,skills and woman involved in golf is the reason James Bond prefers golf to chess.
Does he?
I suppose so...usually it's the evil genius who has the pussy and the chessboard in that kind of flick
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.03 chance to become a GM?!.... so you're tellin' me theres a chance!
Golf. Chess. Sex.
All fun to do. No fun to watch.
astronomer999 wrote:
Golf is a scam, a business conjured out of nothing by a canny Scot. Mark Twain described it as "a walk in the country, ruined".
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The way I heard it was, "a walk in the country, ruined by a little white ball."
Be that as it may, GEOCACHING is better than either of those other 2!
According to QI, it's not a Twain quote at all.
In my view, golf is the most difficult sport there is, and I've played nearly all of them. I mean, the ball is just sitting there, saying "hit me!" There are different clubs to hit the idle ball any distance you need!
One huge difference is that there is no defense. In chess, or, any other sport or game, one usually has to adjust to what the opponent is doing. Not so much in golf, unless you know you need two birdies in the five remaining holes to win.
The half centimeter comment is apt. Here's how I try to describe it. The shortest club in the bag (wedge) usually flies the ball about 100 yards. That's the length of an American football field. A long field goal attempt is from half that distance, and everyone seems to know how temperature and wind will affect a football in the air.