Americans suck at chess...why?

The something was a small ball of mass that was dense enough to explode. Looking any further beyond where that ball of energy came from does not matter because it already happened (as far as we know).

Rnewms, the theory assumes there was nothing before the Big Bang...so where did the "small ball of mass" come from?

hahahahahahaaha   good one Jesterville

Clearly, The Big Bang Theory does not explain everything...but it does explain some observations. The point being, that what we refer to as laws are only good enough to allow us to explain how certain things work, but it does not explain everything...our "laws" help us but in no way are they perfect.

"before the Big Bang" is not something that exists. "Before" implies time existed already, which it didn't, time started with the Big Bang.

Thank you Annabella1...that one was just for you. 

speaking of "laws" it is my understanding that we don't know what Gravity is yet.  We can measure it.  We know what it is as far as we can measure its effects and its causalities, but do not know "what" the unifying field is.  

Yes rooperi, time began then, in fact everything began then, there was no "matter" before that time. So the mystery is if there was nothing, just empty space...what caused the Big Bang? How does something take place from nothing?

I could tell you, but then you'll never learn to figure out thes thing for yourself

Thank you Jester....very kind of you ;) 

Interesting how conversation went from Americans suck at chess to rascism and now the BIG BANG.....lol  oh dear.....what is next???? 

Yes at the end of every forum is a Giant Black Hole! 

LOL rooperi...and "mea culpa" for the tangent on The Big Bang...

Out of all these posts only 1 or 2 touch on the subject. There is nothing racist about the inquiry, so don't get you party's in a bunch. I am of Turkish decent, so I consider myself Turkish-American just like a Jewish-American and an African- American identify themselves as. So petty and childishly sensitive some of you are, really.

BiffTheUnderstudy wrote:

Moses: Considering that Nakamura or Kamsky emigrated and are not of american culture, and that the US is 250 million people, i would say, they really do suck.

Soviet Union valued enormously culture, intelligence and knowledge, which explains why they supported areas like the arts, or chess so much. Proving that the homo sovieticus was better than individualistic capitalists from the west was a crucial goal for the regime. As a matter of fact, education and culture in the soviet union has been amongst the highest and best distributed in history. It doesn't make stalinism any good, but it's an achievement we tend to forget while talking about the USSR.

Did you read the NimzoROY or are you still huffing paint?

I don't think it is about what Russia does/did is it modest?

Is about what you guys want to do about it! (you have the people/resources)

If China & tiny Armenia can compete then why not USA??

This is chess.com and membership is predominately American (over 40%). Maybe is just going to take a few decades or so for talent to emerge in chess but in theory it should do

http://www.chess.com/members/member_countries?sortby=avg_rating

Laos	13583	0.2%	1279	AlexisMonterreal (2471)
US Virgin Islands	2346	0.04%	1278	williamvanr (2205)
Ireland	33750	0.51%	1277	carlosd6 (2509)
Australia	150975	2.28%	1276	jkk (2571)
United Kingdom	432643	6.53%	1274	MarcellinusDelsink (2725)
Fiji	1332	0.02%	1273	Grand-Patzer (1911)
United States	2683612	40.49%	1272	Julio_Becerra (2736)
Mauritania	210	0%	1272	martij (1630)
Seychelles	278	0%	1271	RebeccaTomkins (1866)

Not all home-produced talent! Yet the Americans that are evolving from National programmes are good!!

http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?tops=0&ina=1&country=USA

We are to busy pulling every other country azz out of a jam when the bullets fly.How much money flows into the USA.But plenty is flowing out.How many soldiers are buried for you outher countries troubles.Its time we die for us not everyone eleses.Maybe youd pay a little more attention to your countries woes instead of chess youd get the picture.2 toursw Viet Nam Marine Vet here,dont feed me no trash talk.You should be ashamed.Why nationality has anything to do with the great game.

This is a chess website in case you had not noticed Roundy...

Show your ribbons somewhere else.

netzach.why dont you act like a man and stick to chess instead of knocking the USA.Id bet my ribbons were earned and not as a keyboard shirt wearing punk.

Who's knocking USA?

Are you even reading  the posts or simply xenophobically reacting man!