Is there such thing as "luck" in chess?

I also get the opinion that it's the pro-establishment types who can't actually think for themselves who get hysterical quite a bit. They perhaps should brush up on their self-reflection, rather than accusing everyone they think they disagree with of having no insight.

Very observant Optimissed, a lot of that on the side of those supporting Putin's rule and war, or not minding the ones truly at fault is the one having started it. Not the defenders, not the people of Ukraine, and not anyone in the west supporting them.

I'm just reporting all the abusive messages.

Because I've been asked to do that and not because that's what I want to do. The establishment is something it's necessary to co-operate with, if we want to alter it. That's politics fom the inside, or playing by the establishment's rules. It's still necessary, if we want to gradually improve society.

But if the thread seems to ran its course and mine got locked on page 1 for far less, such as being political but not really or derailed, and all it took is for someone to post "in4the 🔐" then where are the mods now to moderate people's abuse? Hmm?

It's strange an allegedly new member would even know what the phrase means. And I can unfollow whenever I want, or not. Or even say it but delay to reply to things being posted.

I believe it was a matter of policy for the mods to stand back somewhat. After all, we asked to be allowed to sort things out more our own way.

Closing threads is often a negative which plays into the hands of the trollish types, since it means that records of their folly tend to be buried in time. I want my son to develop an AI package which moderates threads in a far more advanced way than present bots. Of course, I was ridiculed by the usual suspects because that's exactly what they DON'T want. They want to be left alone to manipulate people and close people down, if they can, whose opinions they dislike. A Facebook group to support our local MP who was a contender for the Leadership of our opposition party was taken over by infiltrators working for Starmer. I and several others were blocked and reinstated straight after the vote.

The thread has long since veered off topic. So I mentioned a little digression, after already commenting on the topic and then got attacked. Putin's war, pro-establishment or lack of introspection, it's all an internal argument between myself and Optimissed that I recognize he added to obliquely. But to me, clearly. Not so clearly to others.

Now, if we agree nobody seems to be discussing the actual theme of this thread from year 2011 now in 2023, then perhaps, it's time the thread that degenerated into abuse earns a modes lock. Such as mine have before when one person asked for it. I'd like some intellectual honesty and fair consistency from our mods... any day now 😏

It could be one of the extended tribe of badgers, llamas and associated odds and ends. Who knows, all we can do is look at word-patterns, known phrases, known viewpoints and known trollishness.

Yes. My threads were derailed then shut down by mods. I also argued in said threads to allow the people to discuss things, seeing the site already published a statement on the war or mods/staff wrote about it in their blogs, the comment sections were filled with argument.

That wasn't abusive, for a change. Retract your report!

On the subject of chess, I just played this blitz game as black where on move 12, black has two totally different plans which each are completely won. I played the weaker one ... it was only 5 mins blitz so couldn't enjoy the position. The engine prefers ...g5, so my knight move would be given as an inaccuracy, more than likely, even though it's a far more beautiful plan. That's the trouble with blitz. You can't learn much from it except by analysing afterwards.

We play vote chess that you might enjoy the discussion of in said club. We're playing against Team Greece right now. You're welcome to apply unless the join button is bugged.

I also noticed a lot of off-topic personal commentary and think it's sad, good thing that one may report errors of judgment to staff.

Uses the word "whine".

That's four to six people I can think of, all vainly imagining themselves "hard men" (such a laugh!) .... all complaining about those who complain about them.

Victim to mass murderer "I say sir, you've just chopped my head off!"
Mass murderer to victim "Stop whining, that's what you get for being so deluded! How dare you say I was hysterical when I killed your grandmother"!

Did somebody hear something?

Luck is synonymous with fortune and there's both good and bad. So yes, to reiterate, there's luck in chess in that sense. Other than that, hey Optimissed so how's the daycare center at OD?

Come on man, can somebody clean these guys and their comments out of here pls

No, I didn't notice anything. Did you?

no