artfizz wrote:
Not all chess players are introverted. At my last tournament I met one extroverted player.
I could tell he was an extrovert because he looked at my shoes when he was talking to me.
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AnthonyCG wrote:
Most chess players (which also happen to be people) are normal. I think you're referring to the overly-competitive players which tend to be very weird and introverted since they can be very mean to others. Your average chess player is the same as the average Joe - just a person that happens to play chess.
The weird people just stick out and cause you to think that they are the majority when they are not. The weird people usually think that playing chess makes them superior to others in some way and they are really arrogant.
They are really loud and usually are rude to less experienced players. They usually only act like that in groups since when they're alone they don't have the confidence to speak up. But, when they are alone and act this way everyone just ignores them and it soon becomes obvious that no one likes them. Then they either say obnoxious things out of spite in which case everyone continues to ignore them or punches them in the face, or they do something else and pretend not to care. That's always funny but really sad at the same time.
Anyway you should just avoid them because they are usually socially backward people that have a lifetime of awkward moments ahead until they figure out how messed up they really are.
Most people are cool and are just playing for fun so don't worry about those few.
perhaps these people actually have something wrong with them. how kind of you.
Gigante wrote:
Every time I go to a tournament game, the people who play there are so weird. There either not social, or very social. They don't act normal, or don't look normal. They aren't the role models that most people have grown up to be. I'm afraid for those kids who go and play in the same games.
Also, many of histories greatest chess players have died very early in there lives. Either it was because of a mental problem, or physical.
For me, chess has effected me in many ways, I'm not social at all, I am very compulsive, and I don't have any friends.
Do weird people like chess, or does chess make any normal human being weaker, and weaker (without knowing) until they have problems too?
if you feel this way, you are obviously the only normal one in the room.
Jul 15, 2010
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Competitive chess payers (those that play in tournaments) are not any weirder than any other competive group. Ive been playing in tournys (5-6 per year) the past two years. In my early to mid 30's I raced mountain bikes and met people with the same range of personalities... some social, some not, some unsocial.
Thats my two cents worth..:)
I maintain that anyone worth talking to is "weird." I suspect that the original asker of this question is very young.
Let me tell you something, from the decrepit old age of 30. When you are 18, "cool" is everything. As you go through your 20's, it becomes less and less important. You realize that "cool" basically means conformity.
I remember when I was single, I went on a lot of random dates, and met a lot of random people in bars. I came to realize that "cool" people are boring. All they have to talk about is clothes, and t.v., and really superficial crap. They had no interests, no depth. I found myself just wanting to scream "What do you do!? Give me something! Collect stamps, build models, whatever, but have something to talk about."
Anyway, there's my crotchety rant. I'd rather talk to a "dork" any day. They're more interesting.
Jul 15, 2010
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Flamma_Aquila wrote:
I maintain that anyone worth talking to is "weird." I suspect that the original asker of this question is very young.
Let me tell you something, from the decrepit old age of 30. When you are 18, "cool" is everything. As you go through your 20's, it becomes less and less important. You realize that "cool" basically means conformity.
I remember when I was single, I went on a lot of random dates, and met a lot of random people in bars. I came to realize that "cool" people are boring. All they have to talk about is clothes, and t.v., and really superficial crap. They had no interests, no depth. I found myself just wanting to scream "What do you do!? Give me something! Collect stamps, build models, whatever, but have something to talk about."
Anyway, there's my crotchety rant. I'd rather talk to a "dork" any day. They're more interesting.
Gawd... you nailed it. You are absolutely correct. I lived through that during my "single" years.
... I remember.
Now... Im one of those... "weird" guys (chess player, U.S. coin collector, ex XC mountain biker and avid reader (reading teacher).
I like chess, but that isn't the only thing I do. I'm also in track and basketball. I'm already quiet. I don't think it really makes you weird. I'm not totally werid. I don't think. I make all a's , but how can that be werid. I like to do things that make me think.
Chess enthusiast Eric Scooterpie, loves to interact with people.
Have you seen the way they died. When I say early death, I'm not saying 50 and before. I just find it striking in the way they have died. If you haven't looked at the way they have died, then you don't know if it's not 99 percent. I do. Maybe it's 90 to 99 percent. But it's not a hard statistic. Look for yourself.
I looked 99 times, ironically enough, and didn't find it.
Gigante wrote:
rab63, you know, you didn't even say anything with your message. You basically said what I'm saying in another way. Maybe I was not able to explain myself. All your doing is making fun of me, in the same way I made fun of myself. You have nothing to hurt me. And if your attacking me, then you have a problem with this message. What I said is clearly in the open. Everybody can see that tournament chess players are different then the rest of the world. So they aren't normal. That could be a good thing, I don't know. I'm not blaming anything on chess yet. I'm seeing what people think about this topic. And why shouldn't I blame chess the early deaths of great chess players. You have nothing with your message rab63, your just spamming.
Just what do you define as "normal"? I've never been to a tournament before, but they couldn't be that weird. Some players like Tal, and Fischer died of kidney problems. Genetic in origin. Completely unrelated to chess. Some were schizo. Genetic in origin. Completely unrelated to chess.
hey atleast chess players dont do drugs all day or drink all day or wear slutty clothes (COUGH Miley Cyrus)
I think chess players are on the normal scale compare to famous people
Gigante wrote:
Have you seen the way they died. When I say early death, I'm not saying 50 and before. I just find it striking in the way they have died. If you haven't looked at the way they have died, then you don't know if it's not 99 percent. I do. Maybe it's 90 to 99 percent. But it's not a hard statistic. Look for yourself.
When I say you're smart, I'm not saying you have an IQ of 50 or above. Seriously, that statistic was just way too big to pull out of your ass on a chess site.
i have two basic and simple questions for the idiot who decided to post this topic.
1.Why put up something like this just to insult some people you met at a tourny one time?
2. Define "normal" for human beings. we all act different, think different, and are physically different, there is no human being exactly alike to another so calling someone weird is basically just saying they're human.
By the way one last thing, dont blame your hobby for being the cause of you being a social reject.
All people are weird.
Enough said.
Schachgeek wrote:
You go to a chess tournament and you're surprised to find some people are not very social?
Let me guess, this would be mostly the seriously focused competitive players perhaps?
Sure, you can find the occasional player with orange hair or body odor, but you can find those wandering around at Walmart too.
What's wrong with orange hair?
Hey, I was just eating cheetos while combing my hair. And they say men can't multitask.
I have to say that everyone I have met who is supposedly cool turns out to be unbelievably boring. I thought being cool meant having car chases and stuff.
You know its true when they say 99 percent. Nobody would ever make that number up.