cheater_1 vs. chess.com

I understand both your motivations.

"apparently a significant minority of Americans knows, and observes the difference."

I doubt that sincerely.  I don't think I've ever known a single American to use practise as the verb form of practice and if one did, everyone but an anglophile (in the nicest sense) would consider it, off-hand, as a mistake.  It's simply not used here.  I looked in Merriam-Webster and it lists practise as a variant of practice.  That generally means is usable but seldom used. So, in conclusion, it seems you were right from your side and he was right from his.  It's a draw by repetition.

"Can we stop talking about grammar"

no

Latitude is a cool fellow, and I regret starting that convo now that he and I have messaged a bit... you're right when you said it doesn't even matter. It was just curiosity on my part that got me thinking about it. Plus, it's seems that erik would prefer we don't engage in that kind of speculation, and I'm going to try and respect that (even though I just looove thinking about such things).

Oh, and the cheater_1 discussion has really moved from here and is going on in the actual vote chess game.

I suppose this thread can die. Unless I made any spelling erors in this post.

AS you all may have noticed, I NEVER ONCE defended myself and said, "IM NOT LATTITUDE OR TUNATIN,etc,etc,etc." I actually LOVE when people pose as me or try to come off as me, or in these cases, accuse others of being me. I neither deny nor affirm whether I have multiple accounts, but as ERIK pointed out, ON THIS SITE, there is only one ME.

Go play some vote chess!

BTW, I liked the thought that my name may be ERIK.

"Unless I made any spelling erors in this post."

cute.

"both advice, and advise are still used"

good example.  Languages aren't logical (especially English); they just are what they are... until they change.  

Someone start a US-UK English difference thread. So we can continue this discussion there, and keep this thread the way it was.

And it is interesting how cheater_1 mentioned people pretending to be him... maybe LATITUDE is just some poser?

I don't think advice and advise are good examples since in the U.S. at least, you would not use them interchangably.

 How's that for staying on topic...

Shonennk: You're reading into this too much. Perhaps Latitude is just a person with an opinion on this matter. Cheater_1 is definately not the only person here who uses caps. I doubt if Latitude is the only person here who writes using colors other than black.

"I don't think advice and advise are good examples since in the U.S. at least, you would not use them interchangably."

That's precisely what makes them a good example. They would be an American equivalent of the British practise/practice.

You all REALLY think that this is my only account here? HELLO! I DO have friends in this world that have can create accounts for me, ya know. I may or may not be accessing the "team chess.com" comments in the vote chess portion of this site. I may or may not be reading and PARTAKING in the cheater_1 bashing and "vote casting". I may or may not know EXACTLY what is going on.

Fellow, chess.com players, fellow chess enthusiasts, fellow cheaters:

A long time ago, when I played on another site, I acted like a 14 year old (I was in my early 30s) when I won. I used every horrific word in the book to belittle my opponents after I beat them. I have come a long way since then. Heck, I even acknowledge that it may be a draw, or worse yet, a loss for me. I think I stand a better chance of winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning on the way to claim the jackpot than I do of losing here, but it is possible. As I said before, I will be gracious in win, loss, or draw, for I am actually thankful for being granted the opportunity to participate in this event. I never thought Erik would allow it. Finally, did you POSERS actually think I was going to create a POST without some RANDOM CAPITALIZATIONS to make my POINT. Ha. FAT chance.

Yeh go tell them Erik

Let's be honest here, I will be consulting 3 chess programs for my move, and team chess.com will, without a doubt, have some computer help, and I'm sure there will be a few people +2000 rated. 20% vote moves will be losing moves, 30% will be the CORRECT move (chess is a FINITE game, SOLVABLE, and therefore there is ONE correct move for every given situation), and the other 50% will be mediocrity. Mediocrity will win out. Mediocrity will not CUT it. I believe that is a fair statement.

There is only ONE way that team chess.com can even stay in the game with me to move 40. That is for ERIK to travel to Carnegie Mellon and consult DEEP BLUE with its 200 million moves per second analyzation and 11.4 GIGAFLOP (operations per second)  calculation brain. He would then input the correct move and the other 500+ people would mimic that vote. Then, without a doubt, I would be forced to resign out of shame. Seeing that wont happen, I think I'll go take a nap.

Wake me when it's my move.

 Negativ. There are at least 10^120 possible positions in chess. There is no computer who can determine the winning sequence from the first move. That is the reason people still play against supercomputers, it is not possible for a computer to always win. It is not solved.