To any body :

It seems "nobody" wants to play ... "anybody" ... head-up ... they want to  to take their time ... read books  ... and use computers ... call their mama / etc.

If it  take you ten min. to figure out a move  ... it's not "copastetic" ... (don't walk down the streets of la, memphis, ny, denver, etc.  .. 10 min. indecisively) ...  for chess is like war , colonial political maneurvering, hand to hand street fighting, psychological analysis and how you  apply the mystic of the board  .. for whether you know it or not ... we are taking the mystic of the little ... to try to understand the mystery of the infinite.

(And in the meantime challenge and be challenged) if i'm wrong let me know ... personally I like to play 20 - 30 min  .. hour  ... and play straight thru)

My belief  is of the lotteries of life; Benevolent Converging Coincidences  ( and V. V. ) of Intermediate "chess- guess" - Am  Slooww player- verry- then theres the tortoise and hare fable ! Used to believe I was Indecisive- now am not so Sure - CUL8R ?

Like a duck to water with this internet shorthand now ;-)

TTFN

Wow the first post sounds really stupid, it has nothing to do with colonial politics, it is based on the feudal system, first created in India. And not to sound rude, but the overall tone of the post was rather pretentious.

Would you say that chess players are more sensitive  (like artists ie  musicians/ painters/actors) than the population in general

I wouldn't say that. You got your thin skins here, like anywhere else. Some crazy forkers too. It does represent a community, I think. But, I dont know sh*t!!!!!