I am having ideas of jumping off a roof.
You should run with that idea.
That's very hurtful on many levels. What did I ever do to you for you to want my death? Poland must be a tough place to grow up in. :(
Maybe "CASTLES" is when you move both Rooks at the same time when castling. You know, better protection. Just saying.
Haha
If these are the OP's biggest gripes, then I want his life.
Marcus, even so, trust me, you DO NOT want to walk in my shoes. I bet we wear different sizes, too, so that adds to the problem.
Anyway, an annoying phrase is, "The rest is just a matter of technique" as if it doesn't matter when it's actually more important to study than even tactics.
+1
I remember banging my head on the walls when reading Fischer's game analysis in the 60 memorable games when it ends up rook+a and h pawns vs. rook and "the draw is just a matter of technique" where I did not even get how the final position was a draw (now I know, I improved since).
"Castles Kingside" is not plural. It's not a noun. "Castles" is a present tense verb ending in s. Learn English dude! You live in a country where the majority of the population speaks it!
Jack runs to the store. Diane eats her lunch.
CASTLES KINGSIDE! If I am stating moves verbally of let's say the Berlin Defense, am I going to say "White plays e4, Black plays e5, White plays the knight to f3, ..."? Heck no! I'm going to talk or write in shorthand.
Written as spoken: e4, e5, Knight f3, Knight c6, Bishop b5, Knight f6, Castles (Will only say Kingside or Queenside if both are legal at the same time), Knight takes e4 (or Knight e4 is just as acceptable), d4, Knight d6, Bishop takes c6, d takes c6, d takes e5, knight f5, queen takes d8, king takes d8, knight c3.
Deal with it bro. This country speaks English and Shorthand. Babies speak Jibberish. Otherwise, our language is not text, Tarkanian English, ebonics, etc.
Mr_Tarkanian, I don't think you understand English grammar very well.
When someone is commentating on a sport, they often use phrases like "he shoots! he scores!", to describe a present action. This has nothing to do with plurality.
"Castles kingside" is a perfectly correct, normal phrase for a commentator to use, even if recounting a game that is finished.
Using a verb without the subject is also fine. "Here Kasparov castles kingside" can often (and should) be shortened to "castles kingside" for brevity.
I don't see what the big fuss is about.
I am having ideas of jumping off a roof.
You should run with that idea.
That's very hurtful on many levels. What did I ever do to you for you to want my death?
I don't want your death. But maybe you could break a finger or two so that you stop posting stupid threads on a forum already inundated with stupid threads.
Poland must be a tough place to grow up in. :(
I wouldn't know. Randomly clicking on crap is a time-honored method of creating accounts in places like this.
If these are the OP's biggest gripes, then I want his life.
Marcus, even so, trust me, you DO NOT want to walk in my shoes. I bet we wear different sizes, too, so that adds to the problem.
I wear different sizes on each foot!
But in general I agree with you, unproper use of the language bothers me, like a picture on the wall that is hanging crooked.
You forgot the footnote: Ambrose Bierce, Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults.
Geez, this castles thing is wrong on so many levels.....
Castle in chess is not a noun, it's a verb.
We dont say Pawn took Pawn, we say Pawn TAKES Pawn.
Please please let me help I can explain it all. I'm an authority on these matters.
First. Castles can be plural or singular depending on how many people are in the castle at the time.
Second.
Castle can also be used as a verb:
Damn bro we eating White Castle? For real?
Why you buggin? -- I Castles all the time.
I'm thinking the OP needs to see a shrink and go on some Prozac or something... Relax, man...
Every time I go into a classroom to teach chess, kids tell me, "I won him."
I didn't know the other kid was the prize.
"I own you! All your camps are belong to us!"
Every time I go into a classroom to teach chess, kids tell me, "I won him."
I didn't know the other kid was the prize.
Lol ^_^ Almost as bad as, "I beated him"
Writing "conducting analyisis" instead of "analyze" can sometimes prevent spelling errors that would make the reader watch his ass.
I am not even sure g4 and g5 constitutes an idea. I was under the impression that "with the idea of..." construction was a shorthand form that only entered popular usage because of the wordless informator code's use of the delta symbol to provide an explaniation.
There is also the problem of poor English in chess writing. For example: "Black does not include the moves O-O and h3, and risks practically to lose a tempo, but he has the resource later to play at some moment cxd4, followed by Bg4 and Nc6 and force White to clarify the situation in the centre, which in general is favorable for Black." Opening for White According to Anand Volume 2 Khalifman at 169. This is enough to make one quip that half the words written about chess are meaningless, but the trick is knowing which half ahead of time.
Writing "conducting analyisis" instead of "analyze" can sometimes prevent spelling errors that would make the reader watch his ass.
I've seen people misspell analyze as... the word you're referring to, and I've seen people misspell "guys" as "gays" in sentences such as "Can you gays please analyze," but to this date I've never seen those 2 misspellings together. I'm still waiting for it to happen.
Writing "conducting analyisis" instead of "analyze" can sometimes prevent spelling errors that would make the reader watch his ass.
Zing!
What things do you teach, Ziryab? How are the students? (aside from bad grammar)
In classrooms, I teach how the pieces move. I get to every second and third grade classroom in a small district, and to most first grade, many fourth grade, and some fifth. Each class gets me four times for 45 minutes.
I have three after school chess clubs in two schools and a class of home schoolers. I also give individual lessons.
The offending "I won him or her" usually occurs in the classrooms, but occasionally in the after school club in the public school, and among the home schoolers. I don't recall hearing it in the elite private school.
The strongest players are the top in our city in their grade and score 3-4/5 at the state elementary. I have given lessons leading to state championships: WA K state champ a few years ago; Idaho girl's co-champion.
I am having ideas of jumping off a roof.
You should run with that idea.