Any others with high IQ suck at chess.

Uhh...I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm a tournament player.  Yes, I spend more time and effort as a TD than as a player, but I do play in tournaments.

And where on Earth did you get the stuff about most of the people at my tournament being young boys?  I certainly didn't say it.  And the gift thing?

I hope your tongue was firmly in cheek during the above response.

Not that it matters, but  my tournaments usually feature about 1/3 children and about 2/3 adults. 

I don't know what you are like in person, so I'm just going by what you say here.  My guess is that faced with a real, live, human being you would probably make some more valid inferences about them than is possible on the web, so perhaps you would be the absolute model of grace toward those players who were less motivated and/or talented than yourself.  It is possible that the contempt you express would vanish when faced with real people or you would at least hide it well, which is almost as good.

Not everyone, though, does that.  I have been confronted with that sort of contempt at tournaments, directed at me or at some of my fellow long term patzers.  It's very unfortunate, and it's one of those things that drives people away from Chess.

e4 wrote,

"My only contempt is for people who play in a lazy, haphazard manner and have absolutely no desire to study, work hard and improve."

and

"I have no contempt for tournament players."

The two sets described are not mutually exclusive. 

You are just twisting what I said. I've never even been talking about tournament players. You do that.

You are a guy having trouble breaking 1,000 and are a TD with a lot of kids, for whom you like to hand out prizes. That's what you've said.

When I played chess, at age 15, I knew a guy exactly as you've delineated yourself. He even wanted me to come over to his place to spend the night, which I didn't.

I have no interest in kids and tournaments and have never made a comment...anywhere in these posts.

You, however, have quite well defined yourself in this regard.

The lady doth protest too much.

x

mmmmmm, pancackes!

I hope that I can navigate the fork from the plate to my mouth with my limited spatial abilites.

Now that is difficult! That may be due to my limited visual abilities.

One last edit.  (Some of you may have seen previous versions of this post.)

It's obvious that there isn't a lot of interest in this topic, and it's equally obvious that whatever interest there is will be squashed by people who shout it down. Oh, well.  There is a certain point that you just have to throw in the towel.

Enjoy your pancakes, fellas.

Hm, looks like we just established one...

This is unprecedented!

A real pitty, it was such a unique gem of a thread too.

Tut...tut, now...seems as though a nerve has been struck and, perhaps, the shoe fits.

Great Vid by Smirnov......havn't seen it, but it's a valuable lesson.

Cheers.....