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alphaous

Really? I know some of @Rodgy's blogs, especially that Bobby Fischer one, sound like they've mostly been taken from Wikipedia, and @DanielGuel was the first blogger I got into, but you guys have funnier blogs IMO, and you are both higher rated, and IMO playing against NMs and sometimes beating them lend blogs prestige. But then again, I do bug @DanielGuel about making blogs because I like them so much, and I don't care that you guys are closer to NM, I just like seeing good blogs featuring decent chess and good humor. I do believe that Biz's blogs are convoluted, but he thinks so too, so an easy way to make a hot take was to say the opposite.

 

Lightning
alphaous wrote:

Really? I know some of @Rodgy's blogs, especially that Bobby Fischer one, sound like they've mostly been taken from Wikipedia, and @DanielGuel was the first blogger I got into, but you guys have funnier blogs IMO, and you are both higher rated, and IMO playing against NMs and sometimes beating them lend blogs prestige. But then again, I do bug @DanielGuel about making blogs because I like them so much, and I don't care that you guys are closer to NM, I just like seeing good blogs featuring decent chess and good humor. I do believe that Biz's blogs are convoluted, but he thinks so too, so an easy way to make a hot take was to say the opposite.

 

I would agree mine is funnier, I try to make it funny cause otherwise I wouldn't read it myself lol

But I would never dare claim my blog is better than someone else's. At least, not publicly xD

I would tell you truthfully that both Roger and Daniel are better than I am at blogging happy.png

Rodgy
alphaous wrote:

Really? I know some of @Rodgy's blogs, especially that Bobby Fischer one, sound like they've mostly been taken from Wikipedia, and @DanielGuel was the first blogger I got into, but you guys have funnier blogs IMO, and you are both higher rated, and IMO playing against NMs and sometimes beating them lend blogs prestige. But then again, I do bug @DanielGuel about making blogs because I like them so much, and I don't care that you guys are closer to NM, I just like seeing good blogs featuring decent chess and good humor. I do believe that Biz's blogs are convoluted, but he thinks so too, so an easy way to make a hot take was to say the opposite.

 

my blogs have humor sometimes but fischer blog = views fr I'm clout chaser

Rodgy

trust me, ill post a blog with humor soon! trust me lol

alphaous

I feel like the higher rating you get, the less you can make humor that's not self-deprecating. You, Daniel, B1z, and Lightning all make your best jokes when criticizing your moves or something. 

alphaous

I do respect the view chasing blogs, it's gotten you a blog of the month, and since you also post recaps, I think it makes you the most well-rounded out of the three. Although Lightning's NCP interrogation was the best recent blog out of you three.

Rodgy
alphaous wrote:

I do respect the view chasing blogs, it's gotten you a blog of the month, and since you also post recaps, I think it makes you the most well-rounded out of the three. Although Lightning's NCP interrogation was the best recent blog out of you three.

frrr questioning NCP's was probably the hardest i ever laughed about chess

alphaous

It was golden, and @Lightning needs to make more or we'll get @B1ZMARK to annoy him.

Rodgy
alphaous wrote:

It was golden, and @Lightning needs to make more or we'll get @B1ZMARK to annoy him.

He just made a similar one a few days ago.

alphaous

It wasn't as good IMO, probably because I've heard that same argument about stalemate a million times. But I guess it counts, and I hope he makes even more.

sndeww

hot take, pass the potato guys it's really hot take it please

sndeww
alphaous wrote:

I feel like the higher rating you get, the less you can make humor that's not self-deprecating. You, Daniel, B1z, and Lightning all make your best jokes when criticizing your moves or something. 

they aren't jokes... 

sndeww
llama51 wrote:

It's just a hot take... but it has some truth to it... you can probably squeeze out 100 points or something.

But yeah, I don't know if people realize... for example Carlsen was over 2700 at age 16. He's in his 30s now. How much has he improved since then? Relatively speaking, not much.

i got to 2300 online when I was around 15, close to 16 basically

I have improved... not at all. 

alphaous
B1ZMARK wrote:

hot take, pass the potato guys it's really hot take it please

No, keep that potato, I'm not hungry.

sndeww
alphaous wrote:

I do believe that Biz's blogs are convoluted

The secret is a lack of proofreading and pretending to have a conversation with someone while writing everything down word for word

alphaous

That does sound like one of your blogs! Hilarious and random.

TheSwissPhoenix
alphaous wrote:

That does sound like one of your blogs! Hilarious and random.

Huh

Lightning
alphaous wrote:

I do respect the view chasing blogs, it's gotten you a blog of the month, and since you also post recaps, I think it makes you the most well-rounded out of the three. Although Lightning's NCP interrogation was the best recent blog out of you three.

That's a good point about Roger

I would do the whole view chasing blog thing, but I don't like the idea of chess views on here lol

Lightning
alphaous wrote:

It wasn't as good IMO, probably because I've heard that same argument about stalemate a million times. But I guess it counts, and I hope he makes even more.

Oh no it's wasn't even 1/10 as good IMO lol but still a little funny I hope

I'll do more questionioning NCPs eventually. The problem is, I'm not very social and I have few friends, so I'll have to talk to strangers to get answers lol

Lightning
B1ZMARK wrote:
alphaous wrote:

I feel like the higher rating you get, the less you can make humor that's not self-deprecating. You, Daniel, B1z, and Lightning all make your best jokes when criticizing your moves or something. 

they aren't jokes...