good one Andy! 
Chess for angry high-strung people?
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Angry, high strung people don't normally have the patience to play chess very well. If you beat them, I am sure the fall out it would cause, would be another obstacle for them, in trying to belovedly embrace this game and the others who play it. They wouldn't normally ever get good either, can you see one of them trying to take constructive critism?
exactly!!
i'm a fekkin useless player anyway ya big fat plonker!!
Sep 16, 2012
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ivandh wrote:
coneheadzombie wrote:
chess is for smart people, not angry people.
If anything this site has shown that intelligence does not correlate with chess.
Perhaps it just shows that intelligence does not correlate with internet?
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
exactly!!
i'm a fekkin useless player anyway ya big fat plonker!!
I'm not even close to fat...
you need to eat more
AndyClifton wrote:
ivandh wrote:
coneheadzombie wrote:
chess is for smart people, not angry people.
If anything this site has shown that intelligence does not correlate with chess.
Despite the many many threads showing that intelligence correlates with chess.
No sarcasm there at all!
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
you need to eat more
Eating is often overrated...among other things...
TMIMITW wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
ivandh wrote:
coneheadzombie wrote:
chess is for smart people, not angry people.
If anything this site has shown that intelligence does not correlate with chess.
Despite the many many threads showing that intelligence correlates with chess.
No sarcasm there at all!
I am never sarcastic. It is neither helpful nor nice!
Who likes to be defeated? In chess luck is off, and when we lose it feels like we are stupid and our opponent smarter than us. People are inclined to refuse this assumption, and we think guy who just checkmated us are lucky moron, not smart guy. It is the natural instinct of self-defence that's where this anger comes from. To me it's understandable reaction, and I'm not even psychologist :)
Yeah, you're definitely not psychologist.
AndyClifton wrote:
Yeah, you're definitely not psychologist.
It's the American way to express disagreement or just insult without arguments? I think my explanation was close enough to human psychoanalysis, though it sounds a bit like a cruel true.
In all fairness to everyone, I really hate how we most often can't disagree without it always being an insult of someone's intelligence...I mean in perception, not intent...
Unfortunately it's starting to sound a bit like one of those IQ threads (and I was so hoping that we'd come at last to look on that link as being a bit tenuous).
So as not to take any chances I assume everyone on the site is a dumb-idiot & thick-as-two-short-planks unless they convince me otherwise.
Actually, that's not so bad (it's those tests he sends you that are the real insulting part).
Think they issue those tests to keep people busy & calm them down. (In case they get zany-ideas about grabbing a firearm & heading to the nearest mall)
Sep 16, 2012
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#39
Living Chess is a better format for angry people... you can try to strangle the enemy Pawns when you capture one.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/a-living-game
netzach wrote:
So as not to take any chances I assume everyone on the site is a dumb-idiot & thick-as-two-short-planks unless they convince me otherwise.
I go from the other angle until they prove me otherwise...I find it much better in life to assume everyone might be smarter than I am...if they turn out to be, they will atleast think of me as smarter than I perhaps I am and I didn't insult anyone's intelligence. If they turn out to be not so sharp, I didn't hurt their self esteem...I find this especially helpful with older people and authority figures...I end up in less trouble
Sounds like the poor guy just lost the Immortal Game.