Poor play by any of the partners is disgusting.
I couldn't agree more, Natalia. Poor play by anyone - I don't care who it is - makes me sick to the stomach. It makes me mad that in the twenty-first century, after four billion years of evolution, two world wars, and nearly a dozen Bon Jovi albums, some people still have the temerity to play chess poorly. My marriage ended after my so-called wife tried to hang on to her extra pawn in a Queen's Gambit Accepted. I couldn't believe it. I thought I knew her after ten years of marriage, but I was wrong. We were never the same after that, and she's only got herself to blame. Thank God there are still people in this benighted world who have the basic decency to avoid poor play.
I can sense your irony, but it has no ground here. A simple analogy: a good violonist would be disgusted by someone producing horrible sounds from his beloved instrument. And there's nothing personal: not everyone is supposed to play the violin well, not everyone is a good chess player, etc. However, the better you are at something, the more of a perfectionist you become. The same with sense of beauty: a beginner finds picking a queen (which has been blundered) awesome. A weak amateur is proud of giving a smothered mate. A club player thinks that the Lasker sacrifice is rocket science. And so on. The more sophisticated your taste is, the higher the evaluation criteria.
Poor play by any of the partners is disgusting.
I couldn't agree more, Natalia. Poor play by anyone - I don't care who it is - makes me sick to the stomach. It makes me mad that in the twenty-first century, after four billion years of evolution, two world wars, and nearly a dozen Bon Jovi albums, some people still have the temerity to play chess poorly. My marriage ended after my so-called wife tried to hang on to her extra pawn in a Queen's Gambit Accepted. I couldn't believe it. I thought I knew her after ten years of marriage, but I was wrong. We were never the same after that, and she's only got herself to blame. Thank God there are still people in this benighted world who have the basic decency to avoid poor play.
well, natalia, it looks like you and peter may be on the rocks soon...
call me, I play chass well... LOL JK
We don't play chess with him since there are many other interesting ways of spending time together.
Besides that, I'm pretty sure he's a better player than you (since you don't have a title next to your name). 