I'm in a relationship with Chess and it's Complicated.

 The people who make vodka work in a distillery. Read the label. Please carry on.

Since Ernest Jones's (official biographer of Sigmund Freud) essay, the psychoanalysis of chess has been increasingly preoccupied with sexual symbolism. Said Menninger about chess players: "Silently they are plotting (and attempting to execute) murderous campaigns of patricide, matricide, fratricide, regicide and mayhem." A great chess player, Manhattan's Reuben Fine, has popularized a psychology of chess studded with phallic symbols, spattered with anal-sadistic impulses and imbued with latent homosexuality.

Time Essay: Why They Play: The Psychology of Chess

Yeah you are right, Beer is made in a brewery and Vodka is made in the distillery. Thanks :|

Weeks ago, I used to spend hours playing chess. I also read some poems by Keats etc as well as read some more recent books on relationships. I have also had the chance to learn about the popular culture of dating and the dynamics of relationships. My take on the whole issue was that most modern relationships are like a game of chess. People mull over their moves, they brainstorm about the other person's plans and then they make their moves all the time worrying about what the other person is going to do next. You can give these things the labels of "element of mystery", "my dignity" and "your dignity" but in the end, it is essentially reduced to a game of chess. I was well aware of the element of chess in modern day relationships before I started my last relationship. That does not mean, I fully agreed with it.

To me, liking somebody does not need to be guised under a mist of stoicism. If I like something or somebody, I am not going to be afraid or embarrassed to say that. If I like something enough, I think I will get it. If I don't, then it was never meant to be. But I am not going to waste my time thinking about when and how I am going to say what. I also don't think relationship need to be like a game of poker where God forbid, the other person should never see my cards.

I do understand that perhaps my notion of relationships is too idealistic. I mean, why should relationships be devoid of all the guile and ambiguity that surrounds us in other walks of life? I am no expert on relationships, but I think it is plausible that they are nothing but a game of cut-throat chess where one party is trying to win against the others. Gone are the days when a suitor will serenade his lover by singing a love song under her window. Sad but true.

I am just sad that when God finally sent somebody my way, He also sent a bunch of irreconcilable issues. I just wish that I had fallen in love with some nice Indian Sikh girl and had married her.

I do agree with some of you who think that this post has kind of been beating around the bush. I had felt that several weeks ago. I think the post has served its purpose of raising some awareness about the discrimination of trollers. Clearly, I can't think of changing anybody's minds. That was not my intent anyway.

I have decided that I am never going to date again. My objective of dating was to find a wife and not for fun. Clearly, this process is more painful than the arranged marriage route.

I am now working on a blog related to Artificial Intelligence and will be spending most of my time on that blog. Perhaps, it will keep me occupied in a more fruitful way.

Most of your posts have prejudice to the following punch line.

12. You know my name not my story. -- Bobby Fischer.

lol

No but seriously, I was amused by this list. Though I wouldn't say these lines are "common punch lines"? I dunno, I haven't seen quite a few of them before.

I'm going to track manavendra

 I think you should read it after 4 shots of vodka.

Our local WalMart door used to tell exiting customers "Security system activated!  Wait for a store inspector!" all the time until they finally fixed their anti-theft sensors.

As for pushing and pulling, a few weeks ago my post office where I receive my mail at a P.O. box changed their outer door from a "push to enter" to a "pull to enter", and now I smack into the door going both directions. I never realized how I had gotten used to the original configuration until they changed it.

I do not understand this. From my observation, when a new topic is created, it is Pushed to the 'Forum Hot Topics' when it reaches 10 posts, then it remains there until the time period of the last post is above other forum postings. However, this thread was removed from the 'Forum Hot Topics' list prematurely and abruptly. I need an explaination about the reason for doing so. It's bad to leave the members clueless about what's going on.

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"Romancing the Chess"

Who's going to be in this movie, and who's going to direct it?

hey bro it's been 13 years, how is your relationship

He's hoping to get into the friend zone.