Do you?
How do you feel about chess?
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RDR75 wrote:
Do you?
I haven't quite decided yet, but so far I suck pretty bad at TT, and chess mentor, so I might end up hating it soon.
woodshover wrote:
Does anybody on here HATE it?
What's the reason for this?
I don't think there are a whole lot of people on chess.com who hate chess.
What kind of question is this? Yeah I joined this site because it has a lot of chess on it which I hate.
sometimes
FlowerFlowers wrote:
sometimes
Most intelligent answer so far.
No the most intellgient answer is no.
Chess has definitely been a part of my life, moreso lately than it's ever been. I find it soothing and when I am studying it, it just makes me want to become a better player more.
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now. It's perhaps the best strategy game ever invented. I use the word strategy here to set chess apart from games of chance, like poker - which I happen to enjoy on occasion, as it's not purely a game of chance.
Now, hating chess can come from sucking at chess. I did start a topic a few weeks back titled "Can One Suck At Chess?"
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/can-one-suck-at-chess
The answer is yes and this affliction can be corrected by a good chess teacher, provided the student has half a brain. 
Musikamole wrote:
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now. It's perhaps the best strategy game ever invented. I use the word strategy here to set chess apart from games of chance, like poker - which I happen to enjoy on occasion, as it's not purely a game of chance.
I hate to start this same argument again, but poker is not merely a game of chance either.
woodshover wrote:
Musikamole wrote:
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now. It's perhaps the best strategy game ever invented. I use the word strategy here to set chess apart from games of chance, like poker - which I happen to enjoy on occasion, as it's not purely a game of chance.
I hate to start this same argument again, but poker is not merely a game of chance either.
Do you read every word written? 
Musikamole wrote:
woodshover wrote:
Musikamole wrote:
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now. It's perhaps the best strategy game ever invented. I use the word strategy here to set chess apart from games of chance, like poker - which I happen to enjoy on occasion, as it's not purely a game of chance.
I hate to start this same argument again, but poker is not merely a game of chance either.
Do you read every word written?
No he doesn't have time, you're lucky he read it at all.
^ Maybe the way you play, it's a fool's game.
bregnt wrote:
woodshover wrote:
Musikamole wrote:
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now. It's perhaps the best strategy game ever invented. I use the word strategy here to set chess apart from games of chance, like poker - which I happen to enjoy on occasion, as it's not purely a game of chance.
I hate to start this same argument again, but poker is not merely a game of chance either.
A very, very simple computer program could play "perfect" poker. It is not hard to integrate a betting strategy into a simple poker odds formula. Poker is a fool's game.. I love watching poker players concenrate, like there is anything really to think about. "Hmmm did he flinch" "I got 2 3's, wonder what he's got hmmm" Poker. That's a mental sport. ha
I would be willing to bet, you're a bad poker player.
Jul 10, 2010
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Just for the record, there is a book by Alexander Cockburn "Idle Passion: Chess and the dance of death" that claims that psychoanalysis shows that Chess is an unhealthy idle passion that drives people crazy, describing sick players like Morphy, Fischer and even Alekhine, and showing that all the best stories about chess such as Nabokov's "the Luzhin gambit" are about people driven by an unsatiable death wish.
Personally I think that Psychoanalysis is a bunch of BS, but the book is interesting anyway (and yes, I thik that both Fischer and Morphy had serious mental problems that were close to requiring being locked up...).
As far as I can tell, the only death wish I have is a need to strangle the opponent who just beat me...
Musikamole wrote:
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now.
MANCALA!
henri5 wrote:
Just for the record, there is a book by Alexander Cockburn "Idle Passion: Chess and the dance of death" that claims that psychoanalysis shows that Chess is an unhealthy idle passion that drives people crazy, describing sick players like Morphy, Fischer and even Alekhine, and showing that all the best stories about chess such as Nabokov's "the Luzhin gambit" are about people driven by an unsatiable death wish.
Personally I think that Psychoanalysis is a bunch of BS, but the book is interesting anyway (and yes, I thik that both Fischer and Morphy had serious mental problems that were close to requiring being locked up...).
As far as I can tell, the only death wish I have is a need to strangle the opponent who just beat me...
You are right. This chess causes madness crap is INDEED the biggest pile of BS on the planet. Anybody with any common sense would see that.
Musikamole wrote:
What strategy game is better than chess? What other game has enjoyed the same longevity and popularity? I can't think of one right now. It's perhaps the best strategy game ever invented. I use the word strategy here to set chess apart from games of chance, like poker - which I happen to enjoy on occasion, as it's not purely a game of chance.
Now, hating chess can come from sucking at chess. I did start a topic a few weeks back titled "Can One Suck At Chess?"
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/can-one-suck-at-chess
The answer is yes and this affliction can be corrected by a good chess teacher, provided the student has half a brain.
I've admitted I suck at it. But somebody who knows getting laid off in the near future is a real possibility, isn't going to spring for a chess coach. Besides, I'm not hoping to be some kind of competitive chess player, I just want to play a half decent game.
Does anybody on here HATE it?