N2UHC wrote:
Signs you are bad chess player
you have same user name as me.
Signs you're a bad chess player
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Oct 12, 2011
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#403
zrylam wrote:
ker123 wrote:
15. YOU GET SUPREMELY TIRED AFTER A CHESS GAME
You make ignorant comments like this
Lol yeah, that's probably the sign of a good chess player.
Oct 12, 2011
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#404
whirlwind2011 wrote:
vowles_23 wrote:
whirlwind2011 wrote:
When I was in fifth grade and had just learned to play chess, my brother and I would occasionally play each other. He was as much a rookie as I was at the time. In some of our games (in which, I'm sure, our strategy was horrible at best, nonsensical at worst), I would manage to get a Pawn all the way to the 7th rank. The promotion square would usually be guarded, often by a Rook. I wanted so earnestly to promote that Pawn that I would ask and try to reason with my brother that I should be allowed a free move after promoting to a Queen. I explained, "Because otherwise you'll just capture it right away!", or something like that.
Well, DUH!
I didn't try to convince him that it was a rule. I just asked him, more as a favor to me.
Fail, me! FAIL!
Hahaha, did it ever work?
Of course not! My brother would just huff in frustration and say something like, "What? That doesn't make sense!"
I just shake my head now at how puny my grasp of the game of Chess was back in those days. My young, naïve, stupid days....
Dang, that was going to be my new tournament strategy.
N2UHC wrote:
Signs you're a bad chess player
You play 1. e4 and your opponent says “Mate in 6.”
Members of your chess club start chuckling when you walk through the door.
You discover that a tournament is not a good place or time to learn the “en passant” rule.
Half your chess pieces desert the game.
Your idea for a king sacrifice doesn't go very well.
At your last tournament, you tied for last place with a monkey named “Bobo.”
You consult a chess engine for help with your game, and it tells you that you should have resigned 5 moves ago, and would probably be best if you forget chess and take up stamp collecting.
After your queen sacrifice, you tell yourself, “At least he won't be using that pawn any more.”
In the middle of your game, you ask your opponent, “Wait, was I playing white, or black?”
Your best victory was winning on time when your opponent had to go to the hospital.
wait thats not fair, the last two have happened to me more than once!
Oct 12, 2011
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#406
Egroegw wrote:
If you are an (almost) infinitely bad chess player your logic is (almost) infinitely likely to also be at an (almost) infinitely premature stage, and hence the terms x- and y- axis will never be part of your vocabulary until an (almost) infinite amount of time passes.
That actually makes sense to me.
Though I was somehow reading '(almost) indefinite' instead of '(almost) infinite'.
Please define "almost infinite."
frrixz wrote:
Please define "almost infinite."
You know, like, half of infinity, or 90% of infinity! ;)
Oct 12, 2011
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#409
soothsayer8 wrote:
frrixz wrote:
Please define "almost infinite."
You know, like, half of infinity, or 90% of infinity! ;)
I remember when my genius maths teacher explained to us that infinite was a place, not a number. Mind = blown.
By "(almost) infinitely" I mean a finite indefinitely large number.
Egroegw wrote:
By "(almost) infinitely" I mean a finite indefinitely large number.
+1
Half that would be a sideways teardrop.
But the egg shape is very cosmicly significant. An egg is an orbit.
And teardrops, in a way, come from - an orbit.
chesse_chames wrote:
And teardrops, in a way, come from - an orbit.
Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
How do you know if he has never shed tears willingly, or shed tears by force or any other way?
The only sound more elusive than one hand clapping is Chuck Norris crying.
soothsayer8 wrote:
frrixz wrote:
Please define "almost infinite."
You know, like, half of infinity, or 90% of infinity! ;)
If infinity was a real number, then 90% of infinity is still infinity.
What?
Signs you're a bad chess player:
1.You just checkmated your opponent, but don't know it.
2.You're the World Champion "Takeaway" player.
3.You pick a rook pawn as the best piece on the board.
I am dismayed that no one here seems to know anything about infinity!
Infinity is best described as the number of elements of a set, i.e. the set of integers (denumerable) or the set of reals (nondenumerable).
If I were forced to define "almost infinite," I would define it to mean an "arbitrarily large" finite number, to be used in the "real world," not in mathematics. Such a number is meant to be a true exaggeration. For example, Graham's number would be "almost infinite" if we are talking about money, since if we are, we might as well say it is infinite (for "practical" purposes only).
If you are an (almost) infinitely bad chess player your logic is (almost) infinitely likely to also be at an (almost) infinitely premature stage, and hence the terms x- and y- axis will never be part of your vocabulary until an (almost) infinite amount of time passes.