no way chess player rule, we think about useless things like color complexes, waste our time playing a game we can never master, revere people that devote their lives in pursuit of achieving an impossible dream of creating a beautiful work of art that only a small percent of the populatoin can even appreciate, for very little money, and is of no consequence to the world in general.  our attempts to legitimize this game, our holy grail, we pompusly abhor the plebian masses who ignorantly live thier lives without knowing what it is to behold a brilliant Tal sacrifice, or appreciate an artfuly played bronstein midgame, or wonder at the beautiful, natural simplisity of a Capa endgame.  we brag about our esorteric understanding of a lucean position, or that we have 400 opening variations memorized til at least move 10, we can calculate variations and "see" 15 moves deep, we can speak of Nimzowitsch's "Hypermodern" revolution or Fischer singlehandly taking on the soviet chess machien, heck just en passant is enough to baffle the philistine masses...in the end its just a game that we take way too seriously and i wouldt have it anyother way

no way chess player rule, we think about useless things like color complexes, waste our time playing a game we can never master, revere people that devote their lives in pursuit of achieving an impossible dream of creating a beautiful work of art that only a small percent of the populatoin can even appreciate, for very little money, and is of no consequence to the world in general.  our attempts to legitimize this game, our holy grail, we pompusly abhor the plebian masses who ignorantly live thier lives without knowing what it is to behold a brilliant Tal sacrifice, or appreciate an artfuly played bronstein midgame, or wonder at the beautiful, natural simplisity of a Capa endgame.  we brag about our esorteric understanding of a lucean position, or that we have 400 opening variations memorized til at least move 10, we can calculate variations and "see" 15 moves deep, we can speak of Nimzowitsch's "Hypermodern" revolution or Fischer singlehandly taking on the soviet chess machien, heck just en passant is enough to baffle the philistine masses...in the end its just a game that we take way too seriously and i wouldt have it anyother way

1 move/ 2 day vote chess games that begin with the sicillian. 2 and a half months later and we're still in theory.

This needs more attention. kudos

the most boring thing in chess is having to resist the  temptation of shouting "charge" and tipping the board so that your pieces go crashing into your opponent's