You can look at a beautiful home and say, "one day I'll have a house like that" or you can say "they won life's lottery, we need to take that away from them because I don't have that". It is all in how you look at life. I don't have much, but what I have, I've worked hard for so people like that are just bugs on my windshield as I drive down the road.
Most abusive username. I could not play after seeing it

I'm sorry; I didn't realize YOU startd this thread. There's nothing offensive about your name. The person in question wanted to give the mods trouble in tracking down his IP address. I wouldn't play him either. There are teenagers on this site.

Thats okay.. good that now that account is closed.. but not only his username but everything on his profile was completely offensive..
I find that childish behavior (getting angry/abusive, abandoning games, etc.) is a sign of an undisciplined mind, and fortunately, the higher up in rating you go, the less often you come across this. So that can be another incentive for you to play better! ;)

I'm not Schiffrin's father...that I know of. If I were, I would have hoped I would have recieved some chocolate from work by now....But I'm guessing I'm at least old enough to be. My father played Fischer in 1963 or 64, I'm old so it is hard to remember.

Most abusive I have ever seen around here was: 'iLikeLittleGirls'. He was here for half an hour or so! Half an hour was too much, yes!

there was a time when a person who played chess was well mannered and polite. No matter their position in life, they showed some class.
You mean like back in the days when Alekhine would show up drunk and relieve himself on the floor?
Abandoned has no right to chat on here with his avatar right now.
I think he's the person who helped the person with the offensive username.
Abandoned has the inappropriate pic and that other person has the offensive username.

Abandoned has no right to chat on here with his avatar right now.
I think he's the person who helped the person with the offensive username.
Abandoned has the inappropriate pic and that other person has the offensive username.
What? LOL!
My avatar is a classical statue, the Barberini faun. It's in the Glyptothek in Munich.
Well picked up
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
No! he's a human being who won fair and square; you may not like him, but, wait, are you talking about the user name? FanOfCarlsen.