Popularity of Chess

Listen A-hole, I said there has never been a televised chess championship match in the US. And I was right and you were wrong. The PBS show had the moves sent to a tv studio some where in New York which were displayed on a demonstration board and commented on by local masters. If you call this a championship, televised, match---you are a dummy. And please stop taking money for chess lesson---thats a crime on your part!!!

 Listen numb nuts here is another of your quotes  "you said in another post on Fischer (who, emotionally, you seem to resemble) you claim Spassky's pre-Reykjavik score against Fischer was 2-0. It was 3-0, you moron"

Go back you moron and read my post again---I was referring to the two losses at the beginning of the championship match which any six year old child could have understood. How about this---the next time you read a post of mine---HAVE SOMEONE RUN OUT AND FIND YOU A SIX YEAR OLD CHILD TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!!!!!!!

Dashkee, you are a despicable guy. I hope we dont cross paths very often. 

 Agreed, you have to have some knowledge of chess to enjoy watching a high class game. My question is how strong would you have to be to enjoy a game between two grandmasters on tv (even with GMs commenting on the game) ?  Would you need to be a master, expert, A, B, C ???????

In 1972 I watched the Shelby Lyman commentary on the Fischer-Spassky match on TV. I enjoyed it greatly. In 1972 I was a low class A player rated just over 1800.

 I have no idea of what you are talking about---is this in reference to one of my post ?

Yes, it was in reference to the suggestion that one of the posters was not aware of a particular chess players habits. She did not necessarily follow the culture however she plays chess.

Personally, I would be happier if the Candidates took more time, as in the past. Once you get your eight candidates, have some time between matches. Not part of the same tournament. Not best of two or four games. Best of 12 is okay, as would be first to 4 wins.

 Quote the passage you are referring to and I would be glad to respond.

raul72

With every post, you just continue to show how bitter and little you really are.  You're not even as entertaining as Haywood--as I said, comb the feces out of your hair.  All you are is a cyberbully, and you don't impress me at all.  What my Navajo brothers would say here--grrshkay, dashkee.  Figure that one out, moron.

dashkee94, if I was a woman, I'd carry your child.

Raul72, blow it out of your ass.

Tricklev, you old mental midget, good to hear from you again!

I hope you and Dashkee will be very happy together. However, if you are carrying Dashkee's child---I think it will be you who will be blowing something out of your ass!!!!!  OUCH   

dashkee94 wrote:

raul72

With every post, you just continue to show how bitter and little you really are.  You're not even as entertaining as Haywood--as I said, comb the feces out of your hair.  All you are is a cyberbully, and you don't impress me at all.  What my Navajo brothers would say here--grrshkay, dashkee.  Figure that one out, moron.

Say Dashkee, You couldn't make your post a little more raunchy could you. We may still have some mothers and fathers reading the forums.

Father to Mother---"Martha, this Indian guy on the chess forum is writing about feces in someone's hair. Is that some kind of Indian slang?"

Mother to Father---"No Fred, when Indians sleep out on the prairie they often get coyote feces in their hair and since they dont have showers---they leave it in !  After several days the aroma begins to attract squaws and sometimes gay braves as well. I read about this one male chessplayer from Sweden who got knocked-up by an Indian !

Father to Mother---My God Martha, this world is going to hell in a hand-basket !     

Chess is a poor man's game; we cannot help it. There is no large spectator participation, and so poorly paid !

Celebrity chess tournament sounds like a good idea 

 We've always had celebrity chess. John wayne, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, Bill Gates, Bob Dylan, Will Smith, Barbra Streisand and many others.

Hell, Bogart wanted Casablanca to be called Capablanca! He actually played a Capablanca game in the movie!  And thats the rest of the story.

Actually, I made that last part up.  Thats not right, I shouldn't do that. Forgive me God for lying.

sport?  that's cute

Here's the thing about Chess -- it will never be popular or a cash cow and everyone who wants that reality to change really need to get over it.

I can turn on the Olympics and watch a sport I've never played, have no interest in, and listen to two commentators, one of which just read the rule book this morning, for 20 minutes and I'll be able to follow what's going on well enough to enjoy it. Moreover, the commentators can make it so that I can watch curling for hours and enjoy it.There's stuff happening that creates drama and tension that I, as a person who has never heard of the game until I flipped to the station, can follow.

Chess doesn't have that draw. It's fans are limited entirely to the people who play the game. Moreover, at the highest levels even people who play the game very well often don't have a clue what's going on. How many top level events broadcast on ICC or here or wherever have we seen where the 2700+ crowd are making moves and the 2500 commentators are asking each other what's going on? Meanwhile the 1600s in the peanut gallery are looking at their computers and saying "Oh, that was a blunder if he'd have moved teh rook again Rybka says he'd be up 0.02 pawns!!" Which pretty much tells you they have no clue what's going on either.

The most exciting moments in a chess game is "the long think." How exciting can we make a guy sitting at the table staring into space as his mind races through possibilities we'll never know about while commentators get all excited about speculative lines that no one playing the game would ever consider seriously?

anytime a forums poster says the words "get over it" i totally just get over it.  like--totally.  it makes me feel so good.

 The Long Think--- Ladies and Gentlemen, after 32 minutes of thought grandmaster Aron is reaching out to make his move. You can hear a pin drop. His hand approaches his rook pawn---the roar of the crowd begins to build.  He clutches his rook pawn as the roar of the crowd is deafening. He slides the pawn forward one square  PR3!  The crowd is going wild---this game will be immortal as long as chess is played. 

Nimzovitch has just played "The Immortal Zugzwang Game".

and we're just supposed to "get over it"

It's ironic that you get all uppity about people making worthless posts and starting worthless threads in this forum and then you post this sort of drivel in response to someones well thought out and articulate posts.