Yes.
Sometimes I wonder "Have they died??"
I'm sure that has been the case, more than once.
But I have left games, myself. It happens. People get bored, move on to something else. Heaven knows there is plentyto choose from, on the Web.
Friends who are gone
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Feb 2, 2018
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#4
On a actual note most of my friends got banned. Though a relation @Kaynight closed his account last I checked.
I'm pourin' out a 40 for all y'all that got left behind.
On a happier note, someone returned to the site!! Yeah!!!!
Was overjoyed
friend checked out of chess.com😢
Thanks, Varelse!
I hope and pray that he is okay!!!
Gone,but not forgotten....
When friends return it is a happy occassion!
Still patiently waiting...
52yrral,
I hope your chess friend returns!
Allegretta
May 24, 2018
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#15
Yes people come and people go and we wonder why they have left, of course some were given the heave-ho for not following the rules of this site. Mind you some do come back under a new name and others will just re-activate their old account. Then again some just fade away and we are left wondering as to what happened.
Allegretta, and yours as well.
Yes badenwurtca, and the not knowing is perhaps worse than missing them.
May 24, 2018
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#20
Here is one of his mastapieces:
stuzzicadenti wrote:
people avoid what they don't understand. and when people avoid something they also tend to criticize it. most people don't ever try to understand chess because of the existing negative social perception of it. even people who like chess usually don't want to talk to their friends about it if they don't share the same interest, sometimes because they are afraid of being labeled. there is an overwhelming image of chess being a sign of intelligence and chess players are associated with being lonely and anti-social. that is simply not true. chess is just a game like any other, but it has a high learning curve. people who start playing chess lose hundreds of games before even winning one, and people who become easily discouraged basically give up and forget about chess, or say bad things about chess players. people who stick to chess and actually try to learn the game, not just to win or lose but to understand strategies and become passionate about chess, usually do well. but it's a long term process and huge time investment. to be a good chess player you have to let go of your ego and be humble, and realize that chess, like life, is not about winning or losing but about learning. and this is a much healthier approach because you will gradually learn to see and appreciate how deep chess really is.
in contrast, the majority of society is shallow and does not possess the patience to get good at chess. we live in a world of immediate gratification. the people who truly can appreciate chess are few and far between.
Source: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/why-does-society-hate-chess
I think that the very saddest thing is when people you like are gone from the website.
I've missed people who were kind to me and then got banned for who knows what reason.
I've missed people who just stopped logging on, though they've remained members.
Sometimes they come back!
And then there can be a situation where they out of the blue, though you should have seen it coming from what they wrote, just closed their account!
So this is a blog around the heartbreak of loss within the chess.com community.