Thanks to all in this newsgroup for providing me a couple of months of
diversion. I recently came back to organized chess after several years away,
and I'd hoped that this group would be discussing personalities, strategies,
tactics, the history of the game, etc. You know, the kind of thing that
keeps us interested over the long haul when studying endgames gets pretty
dry.
Instead I found that the level of personal attack had escalated dramatically
since I was last here, and, unfortunately, way too much of the space was
taken up by a few semi-sociopaths who apparently spend about 10 hours a day
at their computers, spewing out the same venomous postings over and over and
over by hitting copy and paste. When you people find time to actually play
chess or work at jobs is beyond me.
Anyway, I'm leaving to go back to ICC, ChessCafe, and other sites where
people who like chess actually write about it and discuss it.
I leave the rest of you to stew in your own juice. Enjoy.

"Michael Steen" whined and cried in message
...
way too much of the space was taken up by a few semi-sociopaths who
apparently spend about 10 hours a day at their computers....

10 hours? I wish I could cut down to only 10 hours a day! I'd need a staff
to do that.


spewing out the same venomous postings over and over and over by hitting
copy and paste.

What is this "copy and paste" you speak of. Is there some shortcut to
retyping things?

----------------------------and now the good
part----------------------------


MICHAEL A STEEN
USCF member# 12407463:
Current Published
Rating (March Supplement) Regular Rating 1224 2004-04 Quick Rating 1356
(Based on 19 games) 2004-04 Correspondence Rating 1169 State PA Expiration
Dt. 2008-02-29 Last Change Dt. 2007-02-02


LMFAO!! Why is it always the low IQ, low elo retards like our 1224 rated
buddy mickey boy here that attack me. You better keep working on that
endgame dude. In a few months "hopefully" you'll have figured out how to win
with a king + queen vs king ending.




"The warrior must maintain a hearty stride, lest he be chewed at the ankles
by mischevious and pugnacious hounds"

JMR


JMR

"Michael Steen" wrote in message
...
Thanks to all in this newsgroup for providing me a couple of months of
diversion. I recently came back to organized chess after several years
away, and I'd hoped that this group would be discussing personalities,
strategies, tactics, the history of the game, etc. You know, the kind of
thing that keeps us interested over the long haul when studying endgames
gets pretty dry.

The only thing which inhibits us Michael, is intelligent stimulation on the
same subjects.

Why not attempt an example of what you would like before you go? Just ignore
those who don't like you for posting it, and only engage people who have
demonstrated an interest in chess. [as best you can!]

If you can't think of something off-the-top, what do you think of my liking
for weird Pelikans? eg

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cd
4. Nd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6 [old school Najdorf]
6. Be2 e5 [Sveshnikov-lite!]
7. Nb3

okay, small break - this retreat is sometimes voluntary, and not hard for
black to handle, here it is mandatory since a6 is already played, but the
overall position is different, since the b3 Kt [worse square on the board?]
actually changes the entire pattern of the game from the 'usual' a3 position
of the Kt.

7. ... Be7
8. 0-0 Be6
9 f4 Qc7

another break, black has mobilised all but one of his minor pieces, while
white has castled, achieved one 'quiet' Bishop, one good and one 'daft'
knight. both pawn structures are compromised, but overall white's are
better, [non-backward + mobility] right

10. Kh1 Nbd7 [?]

mobilises the last piece, black can castle either side, or even not castle
at all since white must commit some attack to warrant avoiding! so what's
the problem? Black is losing, but how?

black is cramped - so in chess terms, what does White have to do to convert
his potential advantage into a winning attack? I'll write a few more moves
in a while, but since this is a generic problem, and plodding play only
draws, looking ahead is necessary and risk-management is the name of the
game!

Cordially, Phil Innes

Phil Innes

Instead I found that the level of personal attack had escalated
dramatically since I was last here, and, unfortunately, way too much of
the space was taken up by a few semi-sociopaths who apparently spend about
10 hours a day at their computers, spewing out the same venomous postings
over and over and over by hitting copy and paste. When you people find
time to actually play chess or work at jobs is beyond me.
Anyway, I'm leaving to go back to ICC, ChessCafe, and other sites where
people who like chess actually write about it and discuss it.
I leave the rest of you to stew in your own juice. Enjoy.

You're not the only one who's frustrated with what the discourse he has
become - particularly since we're in a particularly bad patch right now
- but I also haven't seen you trying to steer the discourse anywhere
more interesting, either.

Why don't you post some games, some ideas, something relevant to chess?

-Ron

"Ron" wrote in message
...

You're not the only one who's frustrated with what the discourse he has
become - particularly since we're in a particularly bad patch right now
- but I also haven't seen you trying to steer the discourse anywhere
more interesting, either.

Why don't you post some games, some ideas, something relevant to chess?

-Ron

I posted a game Ron. Open up your ****ing eyes! It's in the thread above
called "Jason vs The Lackeys". And how big of a hypocrite are you? You give
the guy static for not trying to "steer the discourse anywhere more
interesting" and all you're doing is whining like a little bitch yourself.
Where are your posted games? Where is your analysis? Where is your steering
the discourse somewhere more interesting? Where and when have you said a
single thing that had anything to do with chess?

JMR

In article w5dNh.62148$DN.40912@pd7urf2no,
"You STOLE your deal with Sosa!!" wrote:

Where are your posted games? Where is your analysis? Where is your steering
the discourse somewhere more interesting? Where and when have you said a
single thing that had anything to do with chess?

peruse the following threads:

Kasparov: Najdorf?
Win the exchange?
"Silman's Complete Endgame Course" - any opinion?
Beautiful mating net
Analysis and Comments
Position vs. Tactics (with a little endgame stuff thrown in)

And that's just from March.

I suppose expecting an apology from you would be unreasonable, huh?

I suppose expecting an apology from you would be unreasonable, huh?

I was expecting an apology from you there champ. I didn't see anything
relating to chess whatsoever in your last post. Just some whining and crying
about both the posts here and other people bitching about it. You're a total
hypocrite!

You're taking Silman's endgame course, which is targeted for beginners, so
i'm putting you at around, what, 1500 elo?

JMR

"CeeBee" wrote in message
2.164...
Ron wrote in rec.games.chess.misc:

I suppose expecting an apology from you would be unreasonable, huh?

Do not feed the troll. Thanks.

--
CeeBee

You're one of the biggest trolls around CeeBee. I suppose I shouldn't be
feeding you.

JMR

"Michael Steen" wrote in message
...
Thanks to all in this newsgroup for providing me a couple of months of
diversion. I recently came back to organized chess after several years
away, and I'd hoped that this group would be discussing personalities,
strategies, tactics, the history of the game, etc. You know, the kind of
thing that keeps us interested over the long haul when studying endgames
gets pretty dry.
Instead I found that the level of personal attack had escalated
dramatically since I was last here, and, unfortunately, way too much of
the space was taken up by a few semi-sociopaths who apparently spend about
10 hours a day at their computers, spewing out the same venomous postings
over and over and over by hitting copy and paste. When you people find
time to actually play chess or work at jobs is beyond me.
Anyway, I'm leaving to go back to ICC, ChessCafe, and other sites where
people who like chess actually write about it and discuss it.
I leave the rest of you to stew in your own juice. Enjoy.

Bravo, Michael! This group has little to do with chess these days. I, too,
bemoan that fact.
--
Ian Burton
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"Ian Burton" wrote in message
...

"Michael Steen" wrote in message
...
Thanks to all in this newsgroup for providing me a couple of months of
diversion. I recently came back to organized chess after several years
away, and I'd hoped that this group would be discussing personalities,
strategies, tactics, the history of the game, etc. You know, the kind of
thing that keeps us interested over the long haul when studying endgames
gets pretty dry.
Instead I found that the level of personal attack had escalated
dramatically since I was last here, and, unfortunately, way too much of
the space was taken up by a few semi-sociopaths who apparently spend
about 10 hours a day at their computers, spewing out the same venomous
postings over and over and over by hitting copy and paste. When you
people find time to actually play chess or work at jobs is beyond me.
Anyway, I'm leaving to go back to ICC, ChessCafe, and other sites where
people who like chess actually write about it and discuss it.
I leave the rest of you to stew in your own juice. Enjoy.

Bravo, Michael! This group has little to do with chess these days. I,
too, bemoan that fact.

Bemoan or beware? Ian - come on - let's take it back. Random noise sometimes
needs confronting directly [since it distorts] - but most efficacious is to
just write on chess topics, and let this be the measure of things.

Others can offer opinion from their own state from another perspective than
chess - but really lack some compass, some central orinentation to how we
together should discuss chess - and shall we not example it ourselves?

If we fall from this goal, its okay! but not to try is to moan like they do,
non stop - and not just in this ng, in every ng on newsnet this can be
witnessed.

When is receive 1. e4 it is so hard to not play 1. ... c5 because... laugh
and lets us all talk together as human beings who are not 'tolerant' of each
other [how patronising!] but as respectful of whatever we know in relation
to others.

This is how it used to be here sometimes, and was all that was necessary to
keep on compass.

Sometimes someone would say something absolutely marvelous!

Phil Innes

Ian Burton
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