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what a stupid response. why do people have to fall under categories to you? ive never heard half the rubbish you were saying anyways. sounds like you have the labeling thing all figured out. enjoy it... i guess...
i love that song it is really catchy but back to the point that is really gay how peopple think that chess is for nerds i am definatly not a nerd and i play chess and if anybody called me a nerd i would start some violence lol
Well i guess you don't mind the F word used on a site where kids play, but i don't think it has any business here.
chessplayer101 wrote: i love that song it is really catchy but back to the point that is really gay how peopple think that chess is for nerds i am definatly not a nerd and i play chess and if anybody called me a nerd i would start some violence lol
You're "definatly" not a nerd. You don't know how to spell, and you seem to indicate a propensity to resort to violence quickly. I'm going to go with... neanderthal. Good luck on your chess games though, I'm sure someone who can't take the time to hold down the shift key while typing the word "I" will also possess the requisite attention span to foresee material-winning combinations...
...lol.
Mar 6, 2008
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#25
What gets my goat is the mysterious/odd/brilliant tags that are plonked onto chess players. This, obviously, happens when people have a positive view of chess.
I've read, Stefan Zweig's Chess, The Kings of New York by Micheal Weinreb and I'm now reading, The Chess Artist- J.C.Hallman. Each of these books works with the stereotyped qualities I mentioned. I think this does a fair bit o' harm to chess because it makes 'normal' folk think it is not for them.
The reality of folk that play chess is this site: loads of different folk doing everything and anything. I've not met a single genius-oddball yet. (That's not an invite)
As for the negitive attitude towards chess-the socially inept tag-I think that it disappears when you leave school. I can't think of a time out of school where a crowd have beleived that chess was the drug of choice for social outcasts.
I guess there is also the arguement that not all stereotypes are born out of nothing. Maybe there are geeky chess folk out there, hideing under bridges dating trolls-I don't know, I don't live near a bridge.
Maradonna, listen, you're more than right. Stereotypes don't just come from no where. Let me share with you the unbelievable experience I had on my first visist to the Calgary Chess Club.
Okay so, every possible chess stereotype nightmare was in attendance. I hung around outside before it opened, and I saw a known schiztophrenic fellow hanging about as well. I was like "Oh, of course he would be here." And sure enough he was. There was the dirty navy sweatpants dude, who had them hiked up to his nippes. There was the guy with thicker glasses than I'd ever witnessed on a human being to that point. Mr. Schitzo (whose nose was running, unwiped, for the love of Christ) and Mr. Ft-thick glasses both beat me miserably. The guy who clearly had issues told me he'd been going there since 1970... 12 years before I was born.
I washed my hands when I was done. It was a very alienating experience to say the least. We all have to admit that odd-balls gravitate to chess... it's certainly not the rule. I've recently read "King's Gambit" by Paul Hoffman, and Nigel Short and Pascal Charbonneau both come of extremely well in the account. Josh Waitzkin is a guy any of us would love to emulate. BUT STILL...
I've seen so many wicked people on this site. Maybe that is the old stereotype. Maybe chess.com signals a new era in the type of people involved with chess. I'm just saying, sometimes old stereotypes die hard. I know I was taken by surprise. I was all ready to get in with a bunch of exciting young intellectuals like I find on this site and sure enough... it was the worst of the worst.
There was a guy, though, who looked, spoke and acted exactly like Napoleon Bonaparte who I wish I knew better. He was working through a position and annotating out loud, and it was like observing Napoleon himself planning his military campaigns. I'd return just to know who he is if for nothing else.
I get confused with themokey and batmonkey
what is nerd???
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what is nerd??
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Hey! I want that Star Wars chess set! It would go well with my Star Wars Risk, Monopoly and trivial pursuit.
Wow. I don't know where to begin on this one, so I'm not going to. I probably wouldn't stop for a while, and then I'd just get flamed by people from America who don't know how to type English properly.
Chess is for nerds ? Rubbish , just look at Lenny Bongloud dueds ...
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themonkey wrote:
i don't know about you but i hate that some people think chess is for nerds?? if you go on youtube.com search white and nerdy... its a cool song accept it says chess is for nerds. i'm getting tired of that.how about you?? a lot of people like it. please comment.
I don't know if that is true. Chess is very respected in black urban culture. The Wu-Tang Clan's break-through hit opened with a sampled quote about chess! You can't get hipper than that.
"Chess is for nerds" is certainly not true in Russia, Eastern Europe, etc. Chess ability there is admired.
I think the idea that "chess is for nerds" is old news.
word up
Mar 8, 2008
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I was playing chess before the words nerd and geek were invented. In the college where I teach the last idiot to say that chess was nerdy or geeky got introduced to me. He didn't call me a nerd or a geek. He seemed to find a fifty year old chess playing, math teaching biker a bit scary.
chess is cool. Its not any stupid labels like geek, nerdy or dorky. The people I have met respect me for my love of chess. My friend and I actually made it cool to play chess at my school. We both fit the labels of the cool kids at school: partiers, jock, and musician.There were a few losers in the chess club, and they weren't cool because they were insecure about it, but we weren't, so it became "cool" at our school. In end the best guys and girls are the ones who keep it natural, who are sure of themselves and don't let a few labels make them insecure. These are the people who win in the end. So if you play chess and you feel insecure about it, I bet you really are a friggin geek, nerd etc.