Players that habitually drop pieces

d4e4 = strategist?

Yep. Confused me for a few seconds. I thought I had maybe replied to the wrong person earlier ... didn't think I was that brain dead.

1. d4 followed by 2. e4 usually isn't such a good strategy by the way

No. See...d4? or e4?

I don't know who that other guy is...I just got this thing. Anyway...oh, I know alright. Bobby preferred e4 as best. But what would he know?

Maybe I want a Q's gambit? Maybe something else...bring out a horse, maybe.

I hear bong cloud is very good. I am just a simple 1200 bagger.

I don’t know why you think it’s sad.  It doesn’t bother me.

There is one difference between me and some of the people you described.  I haven’t been playing Chess seriously since I was young.  I started three years ago, when I was 45.  I was surprised when I wasn’t particularly good at Chess, because I thought all it took was intelligence, and while I may have lost a little bit in the brain department since my youth, I’m still regarded as a pretty sharp cookie, but I’m not very good at Chess compared to my tournament playing peers.

On the other hand, I find that, with my 750 rating, I can win easily against almost any casual, non-tournament, player, or regular club player.

I don’t know if people ought to say I “take chess seriously,”  I play, on average, 3 or 4 blitz games online per week, I have done about 4000 tactics trainer problems over a period of three years, and I occasionally pick up a chess book, set up pieces on a board, and try to follow the advice.  On the other hand, I don’t get upset if I lose, or gleeful when I win.

What I’m getting at with my pet peeve is that I do encounter people who, on learning that my rating is about 750, look at me with some sort of pity or condescension.  That’s nuts.  Everyone has different levels of ability and interest in the game, and that results in different ratings.  There are other reasons to play besides needing to win.  People are driven away from the tournament or even club settings by  that attitude, and that is the thing that I find sad.  In other words, I find it sad that weaker players do not play.  Many people seem to find it sad that they (we) do play.

On the subject of hanging pieces, the problem with an habitual piece hanger is not laziness as such, nor stupidity.  It’s a flaw in their method of thinking.  Show me a piece hanger, and I’ll show you someone lousy at multitasking.  I stopped hanging pieces when I realized what I was doing.  I would look at the board and check out whether my pieces were in danger.  If I decided they were not, I would then dismiss them as safe.  I would then proceed to move the piece that was protecting them.  Satisfying multiple simultaneous constraints is something that many people, including many smart people, have a hard time with.  They look at the board, “solve” the problem of protecting their bishop, and then go on to “solve” the problem of how best to attack the enemy rook.  In solving the latter problem, they decide to move the knight, which was the piece protecting the bishop.  They hang the piece because at the time they commit the offending move, they are working on a different problem, and don’t revisit whether their move will upset the problem that they had already solved.

What does it mean to "drop a piece"?

I'm completely new to the world of chess; please have mercy.

That's pretty funny. If you wanted to play that particular strategy, you should have closed your old account and opened a new one.

It means to lose the piece with no compensation. Basically, if your piece gets taken and you can't regain the material or it doesn't give you some other strategic, positional, or tactical benefit, then you dropped the piece.

True, it is possible. Based on the edits of the post (the ones I saw at least), I think it is unlikely.

Weird. The immature note that some ancient and elitist bigot posted in my profile now shows as coming from you. Quite the coincidence, eh?

He did that to you too?

Sounds like someone has gone through my profile and looked at my activity since the Bongcloud has come up. 

Well you are given a rating of 1200 when you show up to the site.  Since you just changed your account name, your rating is still there as well.  It says nothing on you being a bagger or whatever title you prefer.

Still sounds like the same guy to me, but at least it is a change for the better.

I think it means to just lose a piece, without trading it for anything.

Martin, thank you very much.

I think you are wound a little too tight. It is just a game. They may have more important things to do than spend the effort to correct the problem, like getting a life.

I hate when that happens

When I coat them with Crisco, my opponent always drops pieces.

That's a great line!

 I never did learn how to fold napkins. Almost got the underwear mastered though.