LOL,
The way I figure it, I may as well be the one to push them over the edge as opposed to someone else.
It's my service to humanity, if you feel guilty about getting rid of them, give them to me and I'll do the dirty for you!
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Oct 22, 2008
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artfizz wrote:
...their picture shows Daddy (or Mummy) with the aforementioned little darling clasped to his/her bosom, are you really going to have the heart to finish them off?
exactly - i had children just so i could take this picture...
artfizz wrote:
There's much to be said for playing opponents who don't chat, and who don't have a photo or even an image, and who have a fairly anonymous username. If the game reaches a point where you have to be ruthless and crush them into the ground - at least they are just a cypher.
By contrast, if you have established a rapport, and they have told you about their sick puppy, and their adorable child - and perhaps their picture shows Daddy (or Mummy) with the aforementioned little darling clasped to his/her bosom, are you really going to have the heart to finish them off? And even if you do, can you avoid the feelings of guilt afterwards, realising that the youngsters may now go hungry to bed?
they play to get away perhaps, so why not play against them. to let them win would make them more worse off if you ask me. if somone didnt want to get crushed they would not play so go ahead and crush them.
i like my privacy
mowque wrote:
i like my privacy
and i like my cat
Oct 22, 2008
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Hey you could've crushed me but you accepted the draw two in a row I might add.
(evil laughter) It's working... with my new found powers of cuteness no one can stop me...first chess.com then the world!
huh..I wonder why cheater_1 hasn't thought of this?
Oct 22, 2008
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mowque wrote: i like my privacy
Whose cat do you like?
Oct 22, 2008
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artfizz wrote: ...their picture shows Daddy (or Mummy) with the aforementioned little darling clasped to his/her bosom, are you really going to have the heart to finish them off?
erik wrote: exactly - i had children just so i could take this picture...
Well at least you gave it some thought.
Oct 22, 2008
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#11
artfizz wrote:
mowque wrote: i like my privacy
Whose cat do you like?
Catwoman's
Catwoman? Meow! 
You mean my opponents might go easier on me if I have a picture of my kid in my profile? I've got to change my picture fast!! 
I have a dummy account for opponents like this. I think my rating is arouund 200.
Sorry, but I'm a chess player--whomever is across the board from me is my opponent, and I consider it my duty to crush them if I can. Cute, to me, only applies to the quality of the combination that wins (or saves) a game. And since no one has ever lost sleep over crushing me (and I did look cuter a number of years ago), I don't lose sleep over beating someone--unless it's a cute brilliancy, in which case I'll lose sleep by playing it over in my head all night! And guilt is for O.J. Simpson.
Oct 22, 2008
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#16
alabaster_knight wrote:
I have a dummy account for opponents like this. I think my rating is arouund 200.
Presumably you mean a dummy account ON ANOTHER SITE where multiple accounts are permitted under the site rules.
look at my daughter, could you really be a chess bully towards her. lol
Oct 22, 2008
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dashkee94 wrote: Sorry, but I'm a chess player--whomever is across the board from me is my opponent, and I consider it my duty to crush them if I can.
ncpharaoh wrote: look at my daughter, could you really be a chess bully towards her. lol
Who's actually playing: you or your daughter?
mowque wrote:
i like my privacy
Same thing for me. i mean, i'm still very young, and chess aren't always considered as high as i would want in my high school.
I was recently participant in a round-robin match between twinned towns: Hastings (England) Vs Bethune (France). The Hastings team was considerably stronger, turning up with eight 2000+ Fide players, resulting in me playing a well behaved and very sweet ten year old French girl. I crushed her quickly and efficiently without a second's thought for her age and inexperience. Afterwards, one of the other home players asked me how I'd done against the little girl. I told him that I had crushed her, whereupon he let out a gasp of disappointment. This got me thinking...were some of the other players going easy on her? was I the only meanie? after all, most of the rest are fathers. I consulted the results cross table to discover she had lost every game! It wasn't just me then....
There's much to be said for playing opponents who don't chat, and who don't have a photo or even an image, and who have a fairly anonymous username. If the game reaches a point where you have to be ruthless and crush them into the ground - at least they are just a cypher.
By contrast, if you have established a rapport, and they have told you about their sick puppy, and their adorable child - and perhaps their picture shows Daddy (or Mummy) with the aforementioned little darling clasped to his/her bosom, are you really going to have the heart to finish them off? And even if you do, can you avoid the feelings of guilt afterwards, realising that the youngsters may now go hungry to bed?