People were crazy before playing chess, a sport

remember Armstrong, Lance, Griffith Joiner, Benny Kid Parret, and the sprinter before the 200m races, who can tell me his names ?

it is not 2003 who could mad them crazy, or Le tour de France, they had something in the brain BEFORE playin' chess.

For one crazy Nimzovitch u have billions of people since who played chess and were NOT crazy. Me , u, everybody.

Ok every morning i see God, in my mirror; But i won't telle that to anybody.

ooops instead of "2003" read "200 m"

"Why does society hate chess?"

Your question does note make sense. Society does not hate chess.

Most of people simply do not care for chess; they just ignore it.

If you like chess, just play it then it is ok.

According to recent news, they estimates that +- 600 millions of people play chess in the world. So, your question is just wrong.

May be OP was born in a family with dady playing checkers and mamie playin GO. Who knows ? OP ?

Society must like us chessers because we are a great community.

I don't think society hates chess.  Define "society."  Chess players are chess in the way a church is the people not a building. 

fokes heer in the ozarks dont hate chest. they jus think its fer peeple who are             well yonder 

ha ha Lajos Tarsca so funny! 

petrikeckman wrote:

It is only american society, which glorify success and economics, that hates chess. In Europe we are more sophisticated and here we appreciate chess. Especially in Eastern-Europe but West-Europe as well.

Step off your little pedistool and take a look at the way things really are. I'm tired of all you a-holes denoting American and calling us arrogant f*cktards or other things of the sort. There is nothing wrong with being American. Not all of us are far or retarded. It's like saying all Europeans have their heads up their *sses

" society " doens't exist, but social classes :

ruling class like chess !

working class has no time !

unemployed has no taste for !

retired are tired !

Hate is just for players who lose, sometimes, after defeat! It disappears after a while, among bad losers, e, it takes times (may be one week sometimes).

Whoa, brute guy! Watch out! I think you are the one that needs to step off you big pedistool. He did not call Americans arrogant fucktards or anything of the sort. He did not call Americans retarded or far. 

Society exists. A society is the ordered aggregate of people in communities. Such aggregates exist.

Communities : yes, etnies, etc ... In Usa certainy Wasp say hello to puertoricans, chicanos, indians, well, to come in golfclubs together. But in France, there are borders btw people depending to their background, original equiment, migs, mediterraneen portugues, spaniards, polish etc ....

According to Henry Miller America is the namewe give to an abstraction. I personnally believe that in time of world war, aggretate operates, but in peaceful time, each one in his playground. some other european countries open no door if you're not a "name",  not depending of your money,  expertises,...

Communities : yes, civilized version of "gangs"

aggregate ?  in the moment of war times.

I don't think you understand the definition of the word aggregate.

ooops! Ichecked "arégat" like you some "conglomerate", I thought it was close to puting together something , ty

Btw i know that your country is really melting pot,ours not, nothing more. Acutally i try to speak foreign language than to b precise analyst of social facts. Style exercise for me, nothing less.

The aggreaget you discribes , the society, seems to me and inEurop, a bunch of tribes with common interests and culture : zero, fighting one agaisnt the other, young agaisnt retired, migs vs citizen, mediteranean vs north etc ...almost on the border ofsomcivil warwith a tabasco touch of terrorism, that' all, like New-york 1972!

Your avatar is awesome.

i like potatoes like all north americans,europans n migrants,this will not change,only some of us drink beer.

if someone non alcholic ,i understand,but if you non beer ,i cannot trust you.