one in four chess players is insane.
Think about your three closest chess-playing friends.
Do they look kind of normal, kind of okay?
Then it must be YOU!
LOL !!
I think the user Newengland7 is one of these insane chess players.
He has blocked more than 30,000 users. If you slightly disagree on him, he blocks you.
Chess is an aggressive game, I have few doubts about it. Many players become very rude in chat. But OTOH some are very nice. At chess.com I have met some of the most aggressive players
You find here what you find everywhere else - all types and kinds.
Chess is a very aggressive game - but aggression should stay on the chessboard where it belongs - aggression between chess pieces and pawns, fights to the death of control of a diagonal or a key square.
Out of the chessboard - you get the usual variety that you get in general society. People are people.
Actually the world elite now has the nicest, gentlemani-est set of people that you really ever had in the history of competitive chess -
Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Grischuk, Nakamura, Giri, Caruana, Ivanchuk - all perfect gentlemen, very well behaved, very respectful towards one and all, very eloquent, always paying their dues - or poking fun at each other in good spirits.
one in four chess players is insane.
Think about your three closest chess-playing friends.
Do they look kind of normal, kind of okay?
Then it must be YOU!