On blocking players and making the most of your chess.com experience

I can assure you that wasn't his idea. You and I both know it's just brute force tactical play. Nothing more than that. No finesse whatsoever.

lmfao

You said, in another post, that you blocked a player because he played "sound but aggressive".

So perhaps it isn't just "stupidly" aggressive play that you dislike. It seems that you dislike aggressive play in general. (In other words: you dislike being attacked.)

You can't assure us that.

You have no idea. You are just looking for excuses.

Accuracy doesn't mean anything in this context. You can play stupidly aggressive chess and get checkmated and have 90+% accuracy. I don't think you understand the context in which the phrase "stupidly aggressive" operates.

I don't need excuses. I'm not excusing my loss. Once again, I can't care any less about the loss. I care about the disgusting chess.

I think you just don't want to see my point.

It was aggressive play, but sound. They didn't play "stupidly."

What you are doing, blocking people isn't the bad thing.

It's the reason behind it and the weak arguments you have for it. 

I don't like being attacked, that's true. But I've yet to block a player who plays aggressively and soundly, but not annoyingly. Aggressive and unsound merits a block. Aggressive and sound merits a block if it's annoying (for instance, by being simplistic).

It's a typically simplistic tactic. That colors the play "stupidly aggressive" under my view. Your view is different.

Well, I don't intend you or anyone else to bet behind my arguments. That was not my intention when initiating the thread. I just wanted to make beginners appreciate the power of the block feature and to use it liberally.

I'm sorry, but your view is wrong. If I saw that a horse is blue when it is in reality brown, could I be right? No, unless my eyes are wrong.

It is the same with your reasoning.

i respect your opinion. Eventually (or not), you may understand my reasoning. Meanwhile, I'll continue to assert what I believe in.

How would you feel if you attacked someone's king.

And you offered a rematch, they declined and blocked you.

I wouldn't care. Their choice entirely.

The point is...

You'll never get better as a player by playing this way. You refuse to learn how to refute bad openings, and as a result you will lose.

It's as simple as that. And you block them, trying to convince yourself that it is completely fine to do.

If only I cared about improving by playing here... Once again, I don't. My learning is done elsewhere. As for me blocking them, I'm not trying to convince myself of anything. I know what I can and can't do and I know what I find distasteful and the kind of players I block all play the kind of chess I find distasteful.

There may be a whole lot of other reasons to block players here. I'm just telling beginners to use the block feature liberally to ensure they have a better online chess experience.

I can't stop you from doing this.

But you shouldn't try to convince others to do the same.

Ok, I'm unfollowing.

ok ur just being stupid at this point i mean ur just makingexcuses for how you cant evend efefend against the simplest tactics