My Anniversary is next month.

Hey PAUL, you are obviously new on the block. Your statement, "the challenge I offer is to have a tournament with you against any 3 players that want to challenge you, I already know that you will decline, right?" is HILARIOUS.

Did you just crawl out from under a rock or did you not see the INNUMERABLE OFFERS I put forth, asking, BEGGING to be challenged by ANYONE, to no avail. SInce APRIL, there has been only ONE challenge and that has been by LIGHTFORCE. ONE. ONLY ONE team has dared to get in the ring with me. Oh, I have had a few since then, but I devote only 100% of my mind, body, and soul to a game. I do not play simultaneous games.

Paul again, how DARE YOU ask for me to have my post proofread. HOW DARE YOU SIR. You may as well have asked to have a great actor like Christopher Lee to audition for a part in a movie or take a screen test. Once again, HOW DARE YOU!!!

Paul again, I must now offer you some slack as I see that you are indeed new here. My life story is a long one, but rest assured, I have the CREDENTIALS of a chess player with 30+ years experience, chess programmer, and college graduate. Also, I have been on this site for nearly a year. Seeing it is has not been around much longer than I have, I consider myself an AUTHORITY on the inner workings of this site and its occupants.

Now I must go meditate.

I'm sorry crackerjack, but the misuse of quotes makes your post look quite retarded too.

Cheater_1, Paul's post is not hilarious... A part of your motivation whet it comes to a vote chess game, is to play against as many people as you can gather. Why? So that your overall popularity is increased. Face it, you are really ego hunting when you post. I am sure you read all the replies, and the ones that agree with you, you get a little thrill in your stomach.

BTW. Paul, I totally agree with what you have written

STAY ON TOPIC!!!! How many times must I STATE that????

We're talking about my anniversary here (now a mere 10 days away). Don't ruin it for me. What is the average age here, 12? GET WITH IT.

Once again, I would like someone to prepare an anniversary card and post it in this forum so that all my friends and fans may sign it on NOVEMBER 24th, 2008

yup hypocrites stand out don't they?

Nope. Look for a forum post from Cheater_1 called "I RECANT", and you will see that Cheater_1 has admitted that he was wrong about that.

Mmm, yeah, thanks a lot BASEBALLFAN. Did you happen to catch my post yesterday that was SWIFTLY REMOVED by ERIK about people abusing power and trying to beat down the little people?

I understand it was MOVED because it was in the wrong FORUM. You, Baseballfan, are just like the others. You get a bit of Pseudo POWER and suddenly your main purpose in life is to shadow the people whose opinions you dont like (as if your opinion is THE correct one) and then either delete their posts or you go out of your way to to make me look bad, just like ERIK. In my opinion, you guys just like to pick on people who you think are trolls. That makes you no better than a troll. By the way, I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF GETTING CALLED A TROLL. STOP IT!!!!!

Once again, STAY ON TOPIC!!!!

Being wrong all the time doesn't make you a bad person cheater_1.  Correctness is not everything.

I was just simply pointing out the truth. I thought the truth was what you were all about cheater_1....

     Happy anniversary Cheater_1. I have to admit some of what I look forward on this site (dare I say it) are your posts in the forum section. While I don't always agree with you, I can appreciate your right to post the things that you are passionate about. As for advertising, well I actually have sponsers for some of my musical projects and they . I avoided them in the beginning but it's a part of the business of music. Since you seem to be getting grief from the multitudes of chess.com members, I'll end this post on a positve note: Chess.com wouldn't be as colorful without you (especially that red lettering. Next time do red letters on a yellow background, the effect will have people's eyes watering).

Thanks Hugh. See, chess.com users, here's a guy who may not really like me or agree with me, but at least he's civil and doesn't take me too seriously. He made his point, stated his differences, and that was it. He didn't kick me when I'm down, he didn't try to bait me into saying something that I will regret, didn't try to get that last little dig in, nothing.

I'm beginning to think me and a handful of others are the only normal ones here amid a sea of trolls and flamers.

while you're down...

Is that you erik!... wow whata man!

erik> i'll take that bet :) how much?

I want in, too!

(For folks who don't know, Erik has a respectable amateur tournament record.)

Good post PAUL. I honestly wish there were more people on this site that had your passion.

Now down to business. As to my degree, it is a Bachelor or Arts from some University in Wisconsin. It is a liberal arts degree which means it is pretty much useless. I will not say what my major is because I get a little spooked when people ask too much info from me and then I just tend to make things up if I get pressured. I currently work in the IT field. Ok, enough about me.

I don't know how much you know about my past here, so I'll encapsulate it:

1) I am UNMATEABLE in internet chess. It has never been done since 1996 and I have played tens of thousands of games since then.

2) I ONLY play computer aided chess (CHEAT). I dont play for real. If you play me, I WILL CHEAT.

3) On this site, I am playing vote chess games currently. I only play one at a time. The one I am in now is a group vote chess game called "The Big Showdown." Join team Light Force if they'll let you, we're only on move 10. Unfortunately it is 3 days per move, so I'll be on that till the spring I think.

4) As the WORLD'S greatest internet chess player, I challenge NO ONE.

5) After my current vote chess game, I will take a break and once again BEG AND PLEAD for someone to play me. If you are around then, and there are no other offers by other teams, I will play you. But teams have first shot at me. I like the idea of cheater_1 vs a team of people. One on one is Boring. Been there, done that, for the last 12 years.

Assemble a group, Paul, when my game is over. You can be the champion of the group if you want and control your members and tell them what moves to make if you want.....oh...wait....maybe that's not such a good idea. Ask Webgogs and Erik (the two in charge) where that got them. Ahhhhhh, I just cant resist. Dont ask them....Ill tell ya. It got us all a botched game. Webgogs jumped ship when the game was deadlocked, he knew there would be no checkmate and then I was denied a vacation and was bullied into resigning or get deleted. It was a FIASCO from which Webgogs and nearly 900 players have never recovered. He has been M.I.A. since June. Shame, really. Such a nice fellow. 

 Wrong, Webgog isn't missing, he just post a thread called "promote chess.com" 4 days ago !