Women - better suited for a) chessboards or b) washboards
Bobby Fischer - chess godsend or bigoted nutcase?
Why cheating suks.
Why cheating is ok (cheaters are the real losers).
It's Not Enought Not to be Rude - or Politness Enforced.
Who was the Greatest Player of all time?
Would Morphy be more than an expert today?
and others?
If a player who is down a Queen, two Rooks and a piece should resign depending on his pawn structure...
vacations--cheating or deserved luxury?
and
will someone from this list of countries-- X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
please marry me and pay for my membership here
Etiquette, especially resignation etiquette.
IQ and chess. Must have at least 3 mentions of mensa.
Arg, too many. Dead horse mind burn. Maybe add more later.....
Hey, that does not exclude the possibility of having pawns ready to promote, the first one putting the opponent into check, and a subsequent one forcing mate.
Edit: I was referring to Eddie Sox' post, which at the time I wrote this was the last one, but apparently two others beat me to the punch in the interim. I must type too slowly.
lol good thread.
Is chess a sport or a game?
What's the best opening?
My opponent is taking too long to move/playing too many games.
Vacation should be disallowed.
Too many popup ads!
Why can non-paying members only get 3 tactics trainer problems/1 tournament/etc.?
Tournament abuse, particularly via vacations.
Unfairness of ads for nonpaying members/elitism of paying members.
love this thread. lol
are chess.com ratings legit?
live v online
this site sucks cuz it won't let me type the word porn
In fairness, there are many, many books written about the same subject. Why not multiple forums addressing the same issue? It would be nice, however, if the later ones could refer back to the earlier ones. I have to wonder if there is some way to have this automated. As in, if I did not know that there were other forums about, say, cheating, and posted one as if it were the first time, then could it be automatically linked to the prior ones? Some search on key words perhaps?
more threads by AWARDCHESS where only he posts
boo. who let the party pooper in?!?!
I'm impressed you went ahead and posted this, braving the inevitable arrival of the
"starting pointless threads complaining about the message boards" response.
Yes, I admit it, I often take the contrary position just to play devil's advocate. In this case, I agree that there are too many of the same forums, but I am not sure how bad that really is. A contrary position forces the other side to refine the argument. Simply saying "yeah, me too" has no such tangible benefit.
In the real world people usually have even more banal questions, such as standing in front of a sign that already gives the answer and querying:
"Where is the restroom?"
One time while working in a beachfront concession stand at a popular South Jersey beach and in full view of beach with no obstructions whatsoever I had a grown person ask me:
"Which way to the beach?"
Most amazing to me is that in the 20+ year interval I still have not been able to come up with an adequate zinger for these ocassions that prevents them from re-occuring. I am working in it, though.
You have to take it easy on people from Jersey though.
Can I at least exclude my relatives from that provision?
Q What's big and grey and doesn't really matter?
A An irrelephant.
Why are Americans:
What's your favourite biscuit?
Why does white always go first?
I saw Kasparov working in Allied Carpets in Macynlleth and he wouldn't give me any discount on my room-size remnant....
Which cheese do you associate with each piece?
Why are there no Chinese chess players?
If Allah, Yahweh, Satan, Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus played a round robin who would win?
Under FIDE tournament rules can I get a timeout to empty my colostomy bag?etc etc etc boring please change the record.
Hey If your relatives haven't made it out of the state by now, they deserve any and all abuse they can handle
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