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polydiatonic wrote:
ah yes, weakie, I haven't heard that one for a while. However Tony, what I'm getting at are epithets that are really used against only (or at least primarly) chess players...
Your comment was, in the words of an old friend of mine:
(russian accent:) "strong like bull, smart like tractor".
Well.. an old friend of mine after gaining the advantage:
(Russian accent of course) "Ah ha.. You are little girl in closet."
Jan 27, 2011
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andrewanonymous wrote:
polydiatonic wrote:
ah yes, weakie, I haven't heard that one for a while. However Tony, what I'm getting at are epithets that are really used against only (or at least primarly) chess players...
Your comment was, in the words of an old friend of mine:
(russian accent:) "strong like bull, smart like tractor".
Well.. an old friend of mine after gaining the advantage:
(Russian accent of course) "Ah ha.. You are little girl in closet."
That's the spirit...
polydiatonic wrote:
You are much more of a curmudgeon then the REAL borg queen. It seems to me that you actually participated in that thread I linked, as I recall.
Anyway, I'm just saying that when I used spend endless hours play over the board back in the 70's and 80's part of the fun of it was hurling insults back and forth at each other. I think that it was friendly, goodnatured and part of the charm of it all. When I was in grad school I took a leave from my university in NY and I spent several months living in Paris and played 5 min chess for hours almost every day in little cafes. It was great, great fun and perhaps most of all was learning so much colorful french chess slang...
I'm just saying...
sounds like a great expierience. you must have plenty of interesting anecdotes.
Feb 21, 2011
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El_Gremio wrote:
polydiatonic wrote:
You are much more of a curmudgeon then the REAL borg queen. It seems to me that you actually participated in that thread I linked, as I recall.
Anyway, I'm just saying that when I used spend endless hours play over the board back in the 70's and 80's part of the fun of it was hurling insults back and forth at each other. I think that it was friendly, goodnatured and part of the charm of it all. When I was in grad school I took a leave from my university in NY and I spent several months living in Paris and played 5 min chess for hours almost every day in little cafes. It was great, great fun and perhaps most of all was learning so much colorful french chess slang...
I'm just saying...
sounds like a great expierience. you must have plenty of interesting anecdotes.
there are a few :)
aghh - I don't like it. You all sucked once. You shouldn't use your superior knowledge and play as an excuse to disparage weaker players as though such play is so far beneath you. It's hard losing to a good player wherein you can't even understand what went wrong. And such weak players provide you with opportunities to scratcch your ego so you should be thankful. How about calling them chess players? You're a bunch of Tommy Toadstoolers.
Patzer is standard here. Btw, yitzd is special, he's no patzer, the link is not relevant. :-)
agree to that!
Feb 21, 2011
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wishiwonthatone wrote:
aghh - I don't like it. You all sucked once. You shouldn't use your superior knowledge and play as an excuse to disparage weaker players as though such play is so far beneath you. It's hard losing to a good player wherein you can't even understand what went wrong. And such weak players provide you with opportunities to scratcch your ego so you should be thankful. How about calling them chess players? You're a bunch of Tommy Toadstoolers.
Well, I think you're missing the point of this thread. These types of exchanges are usually good natured and bandied about amongst chess friends/aquaintences.
If you're losing all of your games you should find an opponent a little closer to your strength or study up and work harder. Even if you are losing all of your games the opportunities for a little gamesmanship is there. But, if this sort of thing isn't the kind of thing you've ever participated in then obviously its not for you. Nothing to look at here, just move along...
No - you're missing the point - I lose games I don't even play! You're still a Tommy toadstooler. In a good natured way for a tractor riding, bowling ball point searching, superior chess playing toadstooler.
if the opponent is weaker than me... I told him that I was gonna kill him.... like I mean it...
Mar 2, 2011
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John_Paul_Asis wrote:
if the opponent is weaker than me... I told him that I was gonna kill him.... like I mean it...
I see. I think that's a little bit off topic though. That's not any sort of name or epithet. That's just a threat.
Some of the most fun I ever had was playing blitz down by the river on River Walk in Augusta Ga. There was a gang of regulars that used to hang out there and we would always talk trash when playing blitz. Most of the trash talk was very funny and noone ever got mad/upset over it. I was not one of the "regulars" since I lived about 35 miles away but I would go by and play with them every chance I got, if I was lucky that was once a week at most.....
Mar 3, 2011
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Reb wrote:
Some of the most fun I ever had was playing blitz down by the river on River Walk in Augusta Ga. There was a gang of regulars that used to hang out there and we would always talk trash when playing blitz. Most of the trash talk was very funny and noone ever got mad/upset over it. I was not one of the "regulars" since I lived about 35 miles away but I would go by and play with them every chance I got, if I was lucky that was once a week at most.....
Yeah I've been fortunate to have been part of various scenes like that over the years. I'm from NY and spent some time down at Washington Square park and also various chess clubs on Long Island...lots of stuff.
Also I lived in Paris for several months when I was in grad school and spent most of that time hanging out in a cafe playing blitz and learning some very colorful french slang :)
polydiatonic wrote:
Reb wrote:
Some of the most fun I ever had was playing blitz down by the river on River Walk in Augusta Ga. There was a gang of regulars that used to hang out there and we would always talk trash when playing blitz. Most of the trash talk was very funny and noone ever got mad/upset over it. I was not one of the "regulars" since I lived about 35 miles away but I would go by and play with them every chance I got, if I was lucky that was once a week at most.....
Yeah I've been fortunate to have been part of various scenes like that over the years. I'm from NY and spent some time down at Washington Square park and also various chess clubs on Long Island...lots of stuff.
Also I lived in Paris for several months when I was in grad school and spent most of that time hanging out in a cafe playing blitz and learning some very colorful french slang :)
Maybe you know this guy then ? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOudJeNWOQ
Mar 3, 2011
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#38
The term photonweight has many applications, including a snappy substitute for patzer or fish.
Are the chess tables still in Washington Sq park ? I would love to visit there someday and play some blitz in the park. How strong are the hustlers there and how much do they normally bet on the game ?
You could easily introduce Cockney rhyming slang into all this too. Bake=fishcake (or even flake, thus flinging a two-barbed prong) and dish=fish...
Right but if you don't use authentic slang no one will understand the insult. Do you have any for me?