Gracious Anonymous

Hey Pseudonym Chessmaster,

I've found that a great number of players on this sight have not been caught by the lure of anonymity toward cheapshot-jerkface-pettyheartedness.  Why, because you cannot be known to your opponent, in real life, do you give in to a desire to be the ugliest, most hateful person you can be?

It is a great plus that this game has taken the interest of fewer shadowed crapfaces than online poker; let's try to put aside the shaight talk as much as possible.

Why not be gracious, winning or losing? A simple 'gg' is much easier and rewarding than 'urso weak' or 'your mother must've worked for a shelfsmith and made a dent in your unformed head bending into the worktable: ps you suck'.

Is there really such a lack of personal control in your life that you have to eek out whatever satisfaction you can by jabbing at others in chat-fields? Can't you take joy in winning, without ruining the game by trying to get a last minute slight in?

I'll need to copy these, do you have more of them ?

I am amazed by how thin-skinned and sensitive some people are.

Don't worry about it, if your opponent is saying bad things to you then enjoy the moment, your chess got to him.

Swear at me after a game, I smile (job done).

I don't say anything, win or lose.

Momma?

this was so cute, in live chess I was one move away from checkmate when I ran out of time, my opponent was kind enough to say "how does it feel to know you just got beat by a fifth grader."

:) sympa

(I stick with gg=good game when finished playing, but don't take it to heart when others are poor sports)

Yes. Well, I did not mean either (notlesu), that we have to become regular facebook friends, stalking each other for every picture upload or status update, or that to feel something at the remark of a poor sport is to be thin-skinned. It's easy to feel very good about a game that you have lost, on time, or mated, if it seemed that you and your opponent were sharing each other's calculation, making good moves, and all that. And even the untouchables cannot deny that it generates unnecessary suckiness when that opponent tops of his/her victory with a last-second 'your shitstains showing'. Or whatever. I understand being drunk, or having had your parents divorce and being filled with anger, or frustration at the pettiness of work. And I understand that this is a ridiculous uphill battle with no probability of success.

But I would like it if people didn't slam on the mask of a sphincter demon at the end of a chess game.

it's just lazy.

disable the chat and you're done with it.

That's true!