Exactly. You can't help him understand because he blocked you. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
My bad,
"Making us understand is not gonna help that guy who blocked you understand."
I was under the impression that there is something else I could have done to make him understand.
I thought that was implied.
My bad. That was just a factual statement.
Stupid me.
Now, that is a good joke!
Now that I think about it.
Oh, that's a good one.
Serous, serious note.
Paper maps are in algebraic notation. If you can't read a map, you can't get anywhere.
Pre-school (before school) children are at home.
How do you teach millions of kids at home to eventually read a map in Algebraic Notation?
Sesame Street
The Count
Battleship. That is what a toy is. A tool to teach kids about the real world.
I cannot conceive of a better method.
We are telling you the reason why that guy blocked you.
Here's the kicker.
Who misunderstands who? Or who misunderstands who?
I understand him. You understand him. He thinks it is a sarcasm.
I understand him.
He doesn't understand me.
The problem is with him.
There is no problem with him?? Maybe he did not get it?? Frankly that is what society has become. There are a lot of sarcastic comments online that it is hard to know if a guy is joking or is serious. Just a suggestion, next time try to elaborate what you are saying a bit. You can't change society, you just have to adjust a bit. And try putting yourself in that guy's place. You are serious about learning notation and a random guy comes and tells you to play battleship. 1. You might not be interested in playing another game. 2. How will you know to show checks (+) checkmates (#) or captures (x). 3.You somehow managed to "decode" what he said and played battleship, now what? Now don't tell me you will immediately understand what that guy said. It took you so many lines and posts to make the people on this forum understand your point, how will that guy understand your point in 3 lines?
And try putting yourself in that guy's place.
I will ponder this.
But here is my "speed chess" response for the moment. And my usual bag of jokes.
(They are not jokes. In oral history, they are called "mnemonics". Devices that helps your audience remember the themes of your story. As in Johnny Mnemonics. It comes from Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory).
There, I explained the joke in detail.
I cannot see myself in his shoe.
I grew up with Descriptive Notation. When books and magazines switched to Algebraic Notation, it was literally as easy as ABCs and 123s.
@long_quach Your last game on chess.com was literally 3 years ago! What do you even do on here? Use chess.com forums to troll? I can see why you were blocked
No he is just extremely annoying. Like half the posts he posts is him trying to seem poetic by adding fancy words but I literally can’t understand what he says but he thinks he’s Shakespeare.
And try putting yourself in that guy's place.
I'll try to put myself in his shoes, sort of speak.
Let's say I move Russia because the Russian women are hot and they play chess. And the fat ones are good for the winter. (body heat). I have to explain jokes now.
Their alphabet is Cyrillic.
How can I adapt?
Easy!
Watch college movies!
Animal House, Van Wilder, Legally Blonde, etc . . .
The fraternities and sororities are in Greek alphabet!
That's not a joke!
I cannot see myself in his shoe.
I cannot think of another example but think of this. You are a very new musician. You want to learn the guitar. You go and ask your musician friend to help you out. And your friend tells you that to learn the guitar you can learn the keyboard first. Now remember you are a new musician. You think guitar and keyboard are totally different and what your friend said makes no sense. Now that is what the guy who blocked you is thinking . . . while the topic going on is algebraic notation you said something that was not connected at all. Now back to the music, for you to understand why your friend said that your friend would first have to tell you that both keyboard and guitar have the same musical notation and all you need to do is learn keyboard and connect every key to evert string and fret and you can play the guitar now. He has to point out the similarity. That is what was lacking in your conversation, pointing out the similarity. And that is the reason for this whole problem.
Now I think I am also going to block OP for no reason😀🤓
@SriyogeshS
I don't know anything about music.
I know I could learn to play the piano if I want to because I learned typing on an IBM Selectric Typewriter.
That was before I learn to type on a computer with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing for DOS.
@SriyogeshS
I don't know anything about music.
I know I could learn to play the piano if I want to because I learned typing on an IBM Selectric Typewriter.
That was before I learn to type on a computer with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.
Just play along. I've put what you need to know in my post. If you didn't get it, Keyboard and Guitar have the same notes that is using a sheet of music, you could play both the instruments, just like you can call out shots in battleship and write notation in chess, by only knowing algebraic notation.
There is no problem with him?? Maybe he did not get it?? Frankly that is what society has become. There are a lot of sarcastic comments online that it is hard to know if a guy is joking or is serious.
Hmm.
I think you have something there.
KIds do not know this.
"The medium is the message."
The fault lies in Chess.com itself allowing people to block. Such a thing does not exist in real life, as easily.
The fault lies within the electronic medium itself.
They are not building this medium to mimic real life face-to-face interaction.
That is another reason I don't like playing chess online anymore. In case anybody ask for the nth time.
You can play real face-to-face chess using Meetup.com, in a "brewpub", the way people did in the past.
I cannot see myself in his shoe.
I cannot think of another example but think of this. You are a very new musician. . .
He has to point out the similarity. That is what was lacking in your conversation, pointing out the similarity. And that is the reason for this whole problem.
1. He blocked me immediately, reflexively. Like speed chess. Without thinking. That's another think I don't like about "kids today".
2. Everybody has seen the movie "The Karate Kid."
Show me:
wax-on, wax-off
sand the floor, etc . . .
If you learn ballet,
Show me.
port de bras
rond de jambe
It's cliche. Everybody knows that.
I cannot see myself in his shoe.
I cannot think of another example but think of this. You are a very new musician. . .
He has to point out the similarity. That is what was lacking in your conversation, pointing out the similarity. And that is the reason for this whole problem.
1. He blocked me immediately, reflexively. Like speed chess. Without thinking. That's another think I don't like about "kids today".
2. Everybody has seen the movie "The Karate Kid."
Show me:
wax-on, wax-off
sand the floor, etc . . .
If you learn ballet,
Show me.
port de bras
rond de jambe
It's cliche. Everybody know that.
What I meant was it would have been better if you added this point in your original post. Btw I assure you not all kids nowadays are like that, Btw you are talking to a 13 y.o. right now.
What I meant was it would have been better if you added this point in your original post. Btw I assure you not all kids nowadays are like that, Btw you are talking to a 13 y.o. right now.
You're very smart for being so young.
I knew there was something off about you, when you didn't full understand Algebraic Notation in paper maps, and how GPS came about.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/getting-blocked-for-no-reason?page=2#comment-93807155
Geez Louise,
How do kids under 18 get on this Forum?
This is terrible.
Geez Louise,
How do kids under 18 get on this Forum?
This is terrible.
Hmm.
Re-thinking.
In a real chess club, there are adults and children. (What are we talking here? Chess is playing with toy soldiers).
The young can learn from the old, and vice versa too, not just in chess, in everything.
This Internet thing has a dimension of anonymity. This is very strange. Like some damn masquerade.
I'll go with it.
You should be judged by what you say. We will remove the older is smarter bias.
Like chess.
One of the first lessons I learned in a chess club: Young and old are equal. (Men and women, black and white, and however you want to dice and slice it.)
....but true
What I meant was it would have been better if you added this point in your original post. Btw I assure you not all kids nowadays are like that, Btw you are talking to a 13 y.o. right now.
You're very smart for being so young.
I knew there was something off about you, when you didn't full understand Algebraic Notation in paper maps, and how GPS came about.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/getting-blocked-for-no-reason?page=2#comment-93807155
Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment .
Exactly. You can't help him understand because he blocked you. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
My bad,
"Making us understand is not gonna help that guy who blocked you understand."
I was under the impression that there is something else I could have done to make him understand.
I thought that was implied.
My bad. That was just a factual statement.
Stupid me.