Is Anand a coward?

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Why is he such a [removed]?

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... says the 1300 player.

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i will do it

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Not being as attacking a player as Tal or Alekhine doesn't make one a coward. Especially the mentality that one should accept a sacrfice if they're a man is too dated and unhealthy for the game.

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For starters, he lost in a hair-growing contest a long time ago, remember ?

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Anyone who won't go toe-to-toe with me armed with only a combat knife and a thirst for blood is a coward, and this definition certainly places Anand within it. I can only assume the "why" is that his combat knife was confiscated at the airport.

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Anand managed to crack Caruana's petroff in a very nice attacking win last year. I think it may have been Wijk aan Zi.

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9497010838 wrote:
Reaching a certain age is when they take the combat knife away. That doesn’t make him a coward.

They just... took the knife away? And he put up no struggle? Cowardice. Bald-faced cowardice. This would never stand in the Klingon Empire.

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Anyway he's not worse than Carlsen) If you want to attack like Alekhine or Kasparov, or if you want to keep a pressure on your opponent the whole game like Bobby Fischer, then you'll have to play in this style many years. I mean you can't start playing aggressively just because you want to. 

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9497010838 wrote:
Wait, I just realized what this guy is talking about. Only cowards play chess. Maybe he’s on to something. I think it’s the only sport played sitting down?

I think he's against everyone who doesn't play King's Gambit cuz he's the king of the chess himself.

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9497010838 wrote:
Well, rowing is sitting down too.

And arm wrestling.

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9497010838 wrote:
Hey, if I had the chance to defend the chess world champion title, I’d stipulate that we had to play standing up. And both players had to stand at the OTB the entire time for a game. No wussies going out to wash their faces and put on lipstick. Balls of steel, baby!

REAL MEN play Chessball.

You set up a table, chairs, board and pieces in the middle of a football stadium. The clock is set for five minutes each, and is placed beside the board. The player of the White pieces must make his move, press the clock, and then THROW the clock towards the end-zone. The opponent must run after it, grab the clock and dash back to the table, place the clock beside the board, sit down, make his move, press the clock, and then THROW the clock towards the opposite end zone.

Moves may only be made while seated, and the clock must be thrown from a seated position. If the clock is thrown out of bounds, the offending player must retrieve it on his own time and one extra minute is added to the other player's remaining time.

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Is the OP suffering from irreparable brain damage, or is he merely a repulsive troll?

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Laskersnephew wrote:

Is the OP suffering from irreparable brain damage, or is he merely a repulsive troll?

Are these two possibilities mutually exclusive? Why not pick one from column A and one from column B?

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Laskersnephew wrote:

Is the OP suffering from irreparable brain damage, or is he merely a repulsive troll?

That's the influence of blueemu and the results of playing chessball for years... So be afraid of him.

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Good point! I had overlooked the intersection of the two sets

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iluvzmebirds wrote:

chessball sounds like the future of chess! no idea how that chessboxing farce ever caught on.

Let this cup pass from us, sir.

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I'm personally convinced that Chessball was played back in the Heroic Age... when men were REAL men. And women were REAL women. And small furry animals were REAL small furry animals.

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DavidElMejor97 wrote:

Why is he such a poosey?

you could help him with better comebacks like on your wall.

  • Oct 15, 2018
    Eat my s h i t
  • Dzaack
    Oct 8, 2018
    so you're not just a crybaby but a sore looser also happy.png congrats, I've wasted 30 min and you get a stamp of shame and a block from my part.
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when anand smack talks, he talks dinner

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