Kids are worse at chess than adults because they are shorter.
Logic.
How tall are you Chess players?
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Feb 16, 2015
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#63
NewArdweaden wrote:
It would be a costly business for the U.S. to switch to the metric system -
300 million plus Americans use the U.S. customary units. It's second nature to them. From cooks, to school teachers, to engineers, construction worker, carpenters, to meteorologists as well as the general population...for the people whose professions deal with measurements on a constant basis -- human errors would quadruple...costly costly indeed....not to mention, books, instructional manuals..etc. have to be rewritten, and measurement tools, cookeries, factory settings....
True story: a worker caused her company over a $million in losses from a very very simple mistake in "measurement"....
MSC157 wrote:
Anyone knows data about Kramnik? :)
http://www.astrotheme.com/heights/6'6
Feufollet wrote:
NewArdweaden wrote:
It would be a costly business for the U.S. to switch to the metric system -
300 million plus Americans use the U.S. customary units. It's second nature to them. From cooks, to school teachers, to engineers, construction worker, carpenters, to meteorologists as well as the general population...for the people whose professions deal with measurements -- human errors would quadruple...costly costly indeed....not to mention, books, instructional manuals..etc. have to be rewritten, and measurement tools, cookeries, factory settings....
True story: a worker caused her company over a $million in losses from a very very simple mistake in "measurement"....
Wasn't there an accident of some rocket or a satelite because English engineers working in an interantional team of Metric-system-using people used Imperial units?
That's true, NewArdweaden. We all laughed out loud 'till we found it really was that tragic.
Feb 16, 2015
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#67
Yeah. Happened in 1999
Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter ($125 million loss)
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
Not surprising. I still find myself calculating prices in pesetas sometimes.
Feufollet? I've often wondered how tall you may be? Now is the time to share. 
C'mon pulp. It's been Euro for a while now. You don't really think of the old stuff still?
roughly yes:)))
6 3 and still couldn t get a master title:)))
Feb 16, 2015
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#73
marcosite wrote:
C'mon pulp. It's been Euro for a while now. You don't really think of the old stuff still?
My parents still convert modern money (GBP) into the old pounds, shillings and pennies, forty-five years after decimalization!
Feufollet wrote:
I'm 2 inches tall, by the way....from the land of the lilliputians.
Funny enough, Liliput declined my political asylum claim. No hopers all of them. Rubbish at chess too.
DrCheckevertim wrote:
Kids are worse at chess than adults because they are shorter.
Logic.
Correct.
Feb 16, 2015
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#76
lilliputians are a paranoid bunch, marco.
they don't want to be pegged, identified, etc...
and they refused your asylum claim because they probably think you are a spy attempting to infiltrate their world...that or you'd try to save Gulliver from their clutches
Doggy_Style wrote:
marcosite wrote:
C'mon pulp. It's been Euro for a while now. You don't really think of the old stuff still?
My parents still convert modern money (GBP) into the old pounds, shillings and pennies, forty-five years after decimalization!
Ha. Your Parents though, not you. My old dad explains the chaos of old money...144 pennies to a pound & I still can't work out what ten-bob is. It makes no sence. Metric is sooo much neater. 
I think that lies on a 12 base numeric system.
Between you & I, Fuefollet, Gulliver sent me a message. I'm in....soon as I strike 2000. Kinda elitist, me thinks.
Somewhere near the 6' 1.5" mark.
Being well built can sometimes be an advantage because your opponents can be intimidated. A well timed glare at an opponent during critical games is something all tall chess players use every now and then. JK
One of my teammates looks like a scarfaced bandit. It works even better.