Can someone look in comment 45 and confirm?
What is the most boring thing in chess?
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bgianis wrote:
Can someone look in comment 45 and confirm?
You can if you are a premium member and your "auto vacation" kicks in.
But please do not turn this into yet another thread about vacation time... 
Hi gang,
I know the most boring thing for me are endgames that are even/drawn that my opponent insists we play out another 20 to thirty moves. Particullarly Rook and pawn endgames.
Watch your backrank.
when your playing online chess and youre up loads of material and they keep playing for two months till you finally "prove" that your win
People talking about cheating on forums.
Openings... learning openings is stupid work, neverending variations. Nowadays KID is analysed to 18 move, Sicilian about 20. Learning it by heart is stupid, because in chess you should think, and making moves you read in a book isn't thinking.
To get better in chess, we have to master the "boring" things. I hate King and Rook and Pawn endings... but they must be mastered. Not to mention positional chess. lol
Gonnosuke wrote:
Exchange variations.
Amen to that!
BorgQueen wrote:
Openings.
Openings are one of the most interesting parts of the game! From there the strategy begins and then you can see how that develops in the middlegame struggle. Studying different openings makes you feel the variety of strategies that a player has in chess. Of course, there are also some quick mating attacks too.
swiniaWkosmosie wrote:
Openings... learning openings is stupid work, neverending variations. Nowadays KID is analysed to 18 move, Sicilian about 20. Learning it by heart is stupid, because in chess you should think, and making moves you read in a book isn't thinking.
Yes, learning specific opening moves in a precise variation is tedious, takes hard work, and gets rid of some of your originality. I love to look at opening strategies though.
The first move?
When your opponent is on the verge of losing, they wait until the last minute to make their move. Then you're stuck waiting for another 3 or so days for them to lose.
Playing by the book.
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ErrantDeeds wrote:
People talking about cheating on forums.
and peole talking about vacation abuse.
playing on when the result is no longer in doubt.
jpd303 wrote:
no way chess player rule, we think about useless things like color complexes, waste our time playing a game we can never master, revere people that devote their lives in pursuit of achieving an impossible dream of creating a beautiful work of art that only a small percent of the populatoin can even appreciate, for very little money, and is of no consequence to the world in general. our attempts to legitimize this game, our holy grail, we pompusly abhor the plebian masses who ignorantly live thier lives without knowing what it is to behold a brilliant Tal sacrifice, or appreciate an artfuly played bronstein midgame, or wonder at the beautiful, natural simplisity of a Capa endgame. we brag about our esorteric understanding of a lucean position, or that we have 400 opening variations memorized til at least move 10, we can calculate variations and "see" 15 moves deep, we can speak of Nimzowitsch's "Hypermodern" revolution or Fischer singlehandly taking on the soviet chess machien, heck just en passant is enough to baffle the philistine masses...in the end its just a game that we take way too seriously and i wouldt have it anyother way
Applause, Applause, APPLAUSE!!! Kudos to jpd303!
What's boring..... Postional, Queen's Pawn, Scotch
What's Fun! Tactics, Endgames, Fullblown attack on the King, King's Gambit
waiting and waiting for my opponent to make their move and then at the last minute, they go on vacation time.
But you can't go on vacation if it is your turn.This is a rule in this site.