RathHood wrote:
Maybe they were cheating?
they weren't cheating because if they were all of thier games would've had to time out not resign
I wonder why so many people have closed their accounts lately.
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Apr 5, 2011
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#43
pdela wrote:
I think they leave because of this psychedelia
-Word of pdela
'People try to put us down.'
I like it here, I'm not leaving anytime soon. I could play chess for free on FICS and read a lot of great articles for free on chesscafe, and yet I choose to pay to hang out here? Hmmmm . . . sounds like the buisnessman may have done something right afterall.
(now if he would just buy a bigger game database . . . ;p)
Archaic71 wrote:
I like it here, I'm not leaving anytime soon. I could play chess for free on FICS and read a lot of great articles for free on chesscafe, and yet I choose to pay to hang out here? Hmmmm . . . sounds like the buisnessman may have done something right afterall.
(now if he would just buy a bigger game database . . . ;p)
Word! That would be something really big to me, to have an extensive game database. Certainly, it is nice right now, but just saying... 
This site is great...
('cept premoves are mandatory! but that'd be stirring the pot and its the topic of an entirely different thread or two, so I'll pull my head in and reiterate ;_)
This site is great! 
No-one's making you use premoves, so to state that they're mandatory seems a little over the top. I think you mean that there's no means to ensure that your opponent isn't using premoves.
TheGrobe wrote:
No-one's making you use premoves, so to state that they're mandatory seems a little over the top. I think you mean that there's no means to ensure that your opponent isn't using premoves.
surely thats what i said, isn't it ? :_)
Erik has done a great job with this site. I gladly pay for my premium membership. If he's now making money at it, good for him....
Apr 5, 2011
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#50
erik wrote:
Highlander285 wrote:
I think if a Businessman was to invest in this Site the way it is now he would lose a lot of money
that made me smile :)
I thought it was comic, too. This site is renowned among chess site webmasters for its model business plan.
Apr 5, 2011
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#51
electricpawn wrote:
"You can fool all of the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
--- Abraham Lincoln
The quote is Lincolnesque, but there is no credible documentation that Lincoln actually said this. It is in none of Lincoln's printed texts. See Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 88.
Ziryab wrote:
electricpawn wrote:
"You can fool all of the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
--- Abraham Lincoln
The quote is Lincolnesque, but there is no credible documentation that Lincoln actually said this. It is in none of Lincoln's printed texts. See Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 88.
There are so many quotes that are falsely attributed to Lincoln that it's not even funny.
The other day someone was arguing with me about the source of the quote, "Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt." They swore it was Lincoln, I argued it was Mark Twain. When I went to the web to settle the argument, I was amazed at the number of sites that had falsely credited Lincoln with the quote. Stupid internet.
Apr 5, 2011
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#53
lefecious wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
electricpawn wrote:
"You can fool all of the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
--- Abraham Lincoln
The quote is Lincolnesque, but there is no credible documentation that Lincoln actually said this. It is in none of Lincoln's printed texts. See Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 88.
There are so many quotes that are falsely attributed to Lincoln that it's not even funny.
The other day someone was arguing with me about the source of the quote, "Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt." They swore it was Lincoln, I argued it was Mark Twain. When I went to the web to settle the argument, I was amazed at the number of sites that had falsely credited Lincoln with the quote. Stupid internet.
That is one of my father's favorite quotes. It is attributed to many different people: Twain, Lincoln, Voltaire, Samuel Johnson, and others. No one, as far as I know, has found credible support for any of these historic persons. It does, however, appear to be a rewording of Solomon's "Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding" (Proverbs 17:18). Of course, King Solomon did not compose all that is found in the texts bearing his name, either.
The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) credits Benedict J. Goltra, Chicago Daily Tribune (10 May 1923) for the line variously attributed to famous people (p. 466).
Apr 5, 2011
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#54
lefecious wrote: They swore it was Lincoln, I argued it was Mark Twain. When I went to the web to settle the argument, I was amazed at the number of sites that had falsely credited Lincoln with the quote.
Yeah the great thing about the Internet is no one ever has to be wrong if they just declare any source that disagrees with them as incorrect. 
Apr 5, 2011
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#55
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
lefecious wrote: They swore it was Lincoln, I argued it was Mark Twain. When I went to the web to settle the argument, I was amazed at the number of sites that had falsely credited Lincoln with the quote.
Yeah the great thing about the Internet is no one ever has to be wrong if they just declare any source that disagrees with them as incorrect.
If you're crafty enough, you can put your own delusions into Wikipedia during the argument and then use it as your proof text.
Apr 5, 2011
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#57
Closing your account here - if you aren't intending to use the site any longer - would be a good idea, since it should reduce the size of the members' DB table and make the site run efficiently. However, since it also has the effect of hiding all of that member's forum posts, it's probably a bad idea on balance.
Before the internet came along, I had read in actual books that it was a Twain quote. I had never read anything that ever claimed Lincoln as the source. Now, I know that's hardly proof, but consider this. If you read Lincoln's speeches you'll see that he has some great insightful quotes, but they're not often humorous or witty. If you look at how the quote was worded, it reeks of Twain's style so much more than Lincoln's.
Apr 5, 2011
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#59
Yeah, and it doesn't just hide the posts, but re-numbers all the rest of them, which can mess up any references that have been made elsewhere . . .
I thought it was, "you can fool some of the people all of the time..."
I thought it was "We won't get fooled again!!!!"
I thought it was, "Fool me once... shame on you... Fool me - you can't get fooled again."