what would be the result if morphy had played up against kasparov?

I hope Yereslov will watch the famous and immortal games of Mikhail Tal. This way he will not belittle Tal's chess genius abilities.

That is the natural to & fro of social-interaction, debate, growing-up in male competitive environment ?

Do not see persecution (at least not by myself).

I see a young person sounding out how to assert themselves in adult-conversation.

I will not baby him. You can if you wish.

Batgirl, you're like the conscience this thread (nay, these forums) never had. Props to you :-)

Yeah it should not have been that bad but fun if Batgirl did not lead us to such negative perspective.

Funny thing Yereslov must have been enjoying this thread too. Any comments here Yeres!!! Lol!!! You have become the subject of this thread, you have made yourself an issue of intrigue. What can you say of Batgirl's convictions and to the rests of us supposedly guilty of such behavior. I hope Oprah is a member of chess.com.

I'm not a conscience and I'm disinclined to suggesting how people behave.  But when every other post is mocking one certain person, something feels wrong.  That's all I'll say on this matter.

Something generally is wrong when that occurs. Differences in opinion appear to be what specifically that something is.

And I chose to ignore his comment.  It was that easy.

I wasn't trying to use  "conscience" in any negative sense. It's actually refreshing to see a normal, human, conscionable response to a thread buried amongst the usual firehose of internet vitriol.

He chose to interrupt the flow of the thread (as far as I can ascertain re-reading it) & has since then only been subject to gentle-chiding from the main-contributors trying to steer the topic back on track ?

An alternate rationale for Batgirls approach is that he's a raging troll and we should all refuse to play into his provocations. Only works if we all do it, though. No surprise these things degenerate quickly into rampant flaming.

After Batgirl's spirited defense of the underdog I waded through page after page of tripe, making sure that we were not being unfair.  After going back about twenty pages from this end, I thought "Well, ok this is proving nothing, I can't find the start of his nonsense."  I went right back to the beginning of the thread (my first post was post 5 and actually attempted to answer the question at hand as did many of the early ones).  Yereslov piped in with posts 33 and 34 and never stopped trolling since.  Given that trolling includes posting something inflammatory designed to provoke an adverse response, either the above first post of his is trolling or he is really really stupid.  He set out his stall with that remark and then proceeded to belittle anyone who disagreed with him.  We did not declare war on him, he declared war on us.  Us being those who were prepared to listen and debate.  I did say in post #5 that Kasparov would have annihilated Morphy but I gave reasons why that made sense, I believe.  Sorry, Batgirl, you are a fair and lovely person but you are defending a scoundrel, a rogue, a popinjay who does not deserve your championship.

Inspector Lewis could not have said it better.  More power to both of you.

@Batgirl is quite thoughtful, but perhaps too forgiving.

@Youraslob, however, remains outstanding in his field.

Having said that Joey, Morphy's uncle probably would have beaten me.  His uncle's cleaning lady would probably have beaten me.  Simply breathing the same air as Morphy would have raised surrounding people's rating points.  This of course explains why Kasparov always used an oxygen tent during matches so his opponents did not steal his inspiring vapors.

Sounds like an excellent idea.

My husband (stats_man) was in New Orleans a couple years ago and visited Morphy's tomb. I haven't been to New Orleans yet, but would very much like to go.

corrijean, if you do go look out for Kasparov with a medium, trying to settle this thread once and for all.