Crying, and all it's implications...

LOL, I never said he wasn't great. I just said he can't sing.

Your TT rating is a measure of your performance. Simply sitting there solving TT problems won't make it go up. You have to use the tactics trainer to make yourself better. When you get a problem wrong, you have to learn something from it. You have to learn, you must change, you must get better. Your TT rating just reflects that.

Well, it is science fiction - but why can't a robot evolve? Ya know, artificial intelligence moving towards self awareness. Hal comes to mind in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." - Hal 

I've read the entire robot series by Isaac Asimov. To answer your question regarding telepathy and to raise a bit of fear in the impossibility of crying over a chess game in the near future because of robots controlling minds:

R. Giskard Reventlov is a non-humaniform robot designed and built on Aurora by Han Fastolfe, and a lifelong companion of Fastolfe. As an unintended result of experiments in programming carried out on him by Fastolfe's student daughter Vasilia Fastolfe, Giskard was given the ability to read and influence minds of humans and robots.

With R. Daneel Olivaw he created the "Zeroth Law of Robotics," an extension/modification of the Three Laws of Robotics, which helped him prevent Kelden Amadiro's destruction of the Earth—though the same law led him to allow a gradual destruction of the Earth through radioactive increases, which would encourage the colonization of the Galaxy. Just before he shuts down, he transfers his telepathic abilities to R. Daneel Olivaw.

I'd watch out for robots in the near future.

I think your question about crying in chess is due to the fact that you are too emotional caught up in winning.

if you win you are good player and if you lose you are a bad player.

my advise is you have to change your mindset

everybody makes mistakes in chess and that may lead to defeat.but just because you made a mistake you can still win or draw. the last one to make a mistake loses.

if you are too emotional involed during the game you cannot think clearly.you have to say to yourself "ok now I am in this position how do I work myself out of it."

I have made the same error I made a huge blunder and I was so disappointet with my own play that I did not see a simple combination that would have save the game to a draw instead I lost. If I just focused on the position in front of me I think I would have seen it.

find the best move. move by move.

I cry and just fricken flame the guy, get muted, then i start punching my hole-less wall (its gone cause i punched it too many times) then my moms like whats wrong and i swear at her, then my dad gets pissed off and tells me to get off and i swear at him then i get abused and next thing i know im in my room (parents closet with a lock) crying..

Trysts is truely awesome and erratic, if such can be said in description. 1436 points for participation! in 2 1/2 mos.!! or LESS!!!

Make me cry!!

@Musikamole:  My Keldan Armadillo attacks your Non-humaniform Robot.  I get to untap my Mishra's Factory.  Oh wait...  wrong game. 

I has a bucket

When I want to cry in chess I play the Spanish onion gambit (accepted)

 ROFL!!!!!

Pdela, it's good to hear from you! Also, it's NOT good to hear from you!

Deep inside, this was what Bobby Fischer really wanted to do to all of is chess opponents.

Make them cry? I agree. Lest they be some jewish, Russian girl, then perhaps he'd be satisfied with dungeons.

Part of me says that crying after losing to a chess game is good. It shows how much the game and winning means to someone. Normally, those are the people who do something about their loss. Some give up easily and abandon the game. Others figure out what went wrong in the game, learn the lesson, and play again.

"The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life."

 You do know Bobby himself was jewish,  don't you ?

and that paradox?

We can deduce that trysts is quite petite.

No, he said he was a christian.