With live games I prefer not to chat, just say hi and gg but in turn-based I don't see any harm in it because it doesn't change my focus, run down my clock or affect the continuity of the game.
step one --> disable chat
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Oct 22, 2009
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I'm picturing two Japanese swordsmen squaring off in a fight to the death and one starts chatting ... "hey, did you see the Yankee game?". It just seems wrong.
p.s.
maybe really good players don't have have or need "killer" attitude?
If my opponent disables chat, I abort the game immediately. Look, I never speak during a game and therefore I see no reason for my opponent to disable chat. It's like requiring -if playing OTB- to have my mouth sealed with tape.
ooda_loop wrote:
With live games I prefer not to chat, just say hi and gg but in turn-based I don't see any harm in it because it doesn't change my focus, run down my clock or affect the continuity of the game.
Same here!
Oct 23, 2009
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RainbowRising wrote:
costelus wrote:
If my opponent disables chat, I abort the game immediately. Look, I never speak during a game and therefore I see no reason for my opponent to disable chat. It's like requiring -if playing OTB- to have my mouth sealed with tape.
Note quite. It's more like putting ear muffs on.
exactly right! and quite funny too.
Apr 5, 2010
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I like the Japanese swordsman allusion, Baznik.
Your logic is flawed AnthonyCG. Baseball too is only a game. Players don't say "Hey, how are you doing, how old are you, where do you live, why did you do that, what are we doing in the universe, why am I so viley chatty?" to each other during it, nor do they during the play of any other "games". Chatting asininely during professional poker is a reading strategy.
I am of the philosophy that games are more than games, as life itself is more than a game, though not by much.
i do.
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That totally makes sense.
Anacletus_Ignis wrote:
I like the Japanese swordsman allusion, Baznik.
Your logic is flawed AnthonyCG. Baseball too is only a game. Players don't say "Hey, how are you doing, how old are you, where do you live, why did you do that, what are we doing in the universe, why am I so viley chatty?" to each other during it, nor do they during the play of any other "games". Chatting asininely during professional poker is a reading strategy.
I am of the philosophy that games are more than games, as life itself is more than a game, though not by much.
I know I'm a bit late to the party (almost 8 years is still considered fashionably late) but players in every sport, especially baseball, talk to one another about random stuff all the time. Not sure if a game of chess would be in the same category as a major sports game but it is more focus based and conversation could hinder that possibly. Easy way to avoid it without looking like a douche would be to simply ignore it instead of disabling chat and denying someone's good sportsmanship.
does anyone else disable chat immediately? forums are for chatting, chess boards are not, IMO. when I'm playing I want to kill the other guy (in a detached buddhist kind of way) so any personal contact is just confusing for me.