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Are chess players bores?
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These forums have led me to conclude that chessplayers are neither geniuses nor bores.
Depends. There are these typical chess players who are monomaniacs. That means socially they cannot do much except talk about chess, maybe the field they work in, or politics and philosophy. However you should consider they might be doing worse socially, if they had nothing at all to talk about.
Generalizing is very dangerous, I'll go with it every chess club has a handful of those, otherwise chess attracts various people.
I do not talk much about chess with non-chess players, unless asked. I know many people who will go on and on about golf or gardening or some other thing whether you care to hear it or not.
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Jun 4, 2011
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Dutchday wrote:
Depends. There are these typical chess players who are monomaniacs. That means socially they cannot do much except talk about chess, maybe the field they work in, or politics and philosophy.
Are you saying, being able to talk about chess, your job, philosophy, and politics means you're socially limited? Hilarious!
As with any group you care to name some chessplayers are bores and some are not. I dont normally bring up chess around non-chessplayers as I know they arent interested. I do tend to talk chess among other chess players , often to the exclusion of everything else...
trysts wrote:
Dutchday wrote:
Depends. There are these typical chess players who are monomaniacs. That means socially they cannot do much except talk about chess, maybe the field they work in, or politics and philosophy.
Are you saying, being able to talk about chess, your job, philosophy, and politics means you're socially limited? Hilarious!
I understand how you feel, however the people who tend to call themselves more social are kind of put off by those topics, at least in excess.
Jun 4, 2011
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Dutchday wrote:
trysts wrote:
Dutchday wrote:
Depends. There are these typical chess players who are monomaniacs. That means socially they cannot do much except talk about chess, maybe the field they work in, or politics and philosophy.
Are you saying, being able to talk about chess, your job, philosophy, and politics means you're socially limited? Hilarious!
I understand how you feel, however the people who tend to call themselves more social are kind of put off by those topics, at least in excess.
Oh. Yes.
trysts wrote:
Dutchday wrote:
Depends. There are these typical chess players who are monomaniacs. That means socially they cannot do much except talk about chess, maybe the field they work in, or politics and philosophy.
Are you saying, being able to talk about chess, your job, philosophy, and politics means you're socially limited? Hilarious!
Of course, talking about anything at all besides the last band you saw or the last party you went to is indicative of social atrophy and unhealthy introversion.
briansem wrote:
...however, when you put your ear to the ground, people are saying, "chess players are bores."
When you put your ear to the ground here, you discover that people are not saying anything about chess players at all.
I think that the general public thinks chess is dorky. What..all the chess players who read this are surprised?
What do I think, you ask? Well, my experience has been that only about 80% of chess players are dorks. You all know who you are.
Jun 4, 2011
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ModernCondition wrote:
briansem wrote:
...however, when you put your ear to the ground, people are saying, "chess players are bores."
When you put your ear to the ground here, you discover that people are not saying anything about chess players at all.
People with their head on the ground trying to listen to conversations, are definitely not boring in a they-must-be-insane kind of way
I know from my friends at least, they do not play chess due to the hardmenship of becoming efficient at the game.
People are always supprise to find out I play chess often. Weather because it goes against their own stereotypes of it being 'a game for dull peaople' or its just not a common passtime for younger people.
-Elona-
Jun 4, 2011
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Elona wrote:
I know from my friends at least, they do not play chess due to the hardmenship of becoming efficient at the game.
People are always supprise to find out I play chess often. Weather because it goes against their own stereotypes of it being 'a game for dull peaople' or its just not a common passtime for younger people.
-Elona-
I've heard the, "YOU play chess?!" surprised expressions because, I have a vagina. Apparently it's a strike against me
Its like they think if a woman plays chess, the whole gravitational orbit of the solar system will shift, causing mass hysterya with cats and dogs living together harmoneously.
Jun 4, 2011
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Elona wrote:
Its like they think if a woman plays chess, the whole gravitational orbit of the solar system will shift, causing mass hysterya with cats and dogs living together harmoneously.
In the land where I hail, people associate playing chess with having brains. however, when you put your ear to the ground, people are saying, "chess players are bores." I wonder whether it is the fear of playing the game or the hardship in learning it. I assumed that some people are not patient and consider playing chess either a bore or a game of the brilliant minds.
My dearest friends say, "chess players are social bores." " How can one sit and play a game for more than 30 minutes and still stay normal with no serious communication apart from that with the board and the person they are playing with."
Should we the chess players be considered genuis or extreme bores of many generations? What is your take on this?