As for the original topic, I would love to chat or at least say good game during live chess, but my chat box does not work, so I can't.
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Ironically, I have nothing to say on this subject.
It's so ironic that you wrote this article yet 2 moves into a 15 minute game with me you dissapear without a word. Multiple attemps at conversation with you and not one word back. Very poor sportsmanship
Jan 30, 2012
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I used to always say hello, but never liked returning to a game where my opponent hasn't responded and just my lonely "Hello" in the window. Most of my best conversations seem to emerge in the middle of games that have been particularly unusual or absorbing. Perhaps chess is in itself a form of communication and other chat is sometimes superfluous.
Vance, to put your previous postings, your career and integrity in perspective, I gladly post some of your rational here.
(taken from your chess.com contributions)
With your involvement in the pharmaceutical industry this makes for some very entertaining reading.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/greed-and-chess
Is greed good or bad? Certainly greed is good -- no, make that great -- when we are talking about the song with that name by Varga. But what about on the chess board? Every now and again one will find a posting that says how bad greed is on the chess board. Invariably, the proof of this contention is a game in which one player (the greedy one) took what appeared to be a free piece, but it was a poison piece, and sprung a trap, thereby allowing the opponent to win. Greed is bad. QED. But this is non sequitur logic. Greed is defined by Wikipedia as:
Greed is the self-serving desire for the pursuit of money, wealth, power, food, or other possessions, especially when this denies the same goods to others.
It is not to be confused with being short-sighted, choosing immediate gratification over long-term benefit. The party being denied is not yourself at a later time, but rather somebody else. There is no notion of mortgaging the future. What was proven is that short-sightedness is bad on the chess board. The question of greed has not been addressed. To address it properly, one would need to ask questions such as the following:
I beat this player seven times in a row, and now we are playing again. I want to win again, but is that being greedy? if I do win this game too, then will this player stop playing with me?
I do not have the answer to whether greed is good or bad. I offer myself not as an expert on greed, but rather as one who has a modicum of knowledge of logic; at least enough to recognize the spurious arguments against greed.
omg!!! I well and truly believe a little extrapolation here will be in order...