... says the 1300 player.
Is Anand a coward?
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.
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.
Anand managed to crack Caruana's petroff in a very nice attacking win last year. I think it may have been Wijk aan Zi.
They just... took the knife away? And he put up no struggle? Cowardice. Bald-faced cowardice. This would never stand in the Klingon Empire.
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.
I think he's against everyone who doesn't play King's Gambit cuz he's the king of the chess himself.
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.
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?
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.
chessball sounds like the future of chess! no idea how that chessboxing farce ever caught on.
Let this cup pass from us, sir.
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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