On Nov 4, 6:54 am, "Chess One" wrote:
"samsloan" wrote in message

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How come you refuse to play me a chess match for $1000 cash?

Because I enjoy playing chess, and have no need to confound that with the
subject of you, and since I have previously explained directly to you that
excessive personality involvement is the very thing that inhibits chess at
the national federation level, and in these newsgroups, [where so people
seem unable to express any joy in their own chess playing, and write
non-stop & depressingly about those who do], and instead use it for other
purposes.

In short, my motive is other than yours, which is only about you.
Furthermore, I /dare/ say that my orientation is entirely mainstream, but
you ignore it because you are a *special* person.

Many people just play the game for its own sake, and find their enjoyment
that way. Should you understand that fact, then you will also understand
that your own orientation is eccentric to both the art of the game, and
enjoyment thereof.

It must also be said that the Miles-effect could kick in, where you seek to
unsettle others by your *special* comments would certainly transport the
engagement away from the chessboard.

A logical conclusion may be that this also renders you useless to any chess
public by way of 'representing' them so as to 'improve' chess, since, by all
these tokens especially you 'deafness', you so plainly do not.

Phil Innes

"Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,
Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,
And wilt not come?"