Originally posted by richfeetDots, commas...Dude!
Why are a lot of people intimidated by chess this response never fails to amuse me and i sse it all the time with folks who dont play!
If people don't even use dots and commas, how on earth are they supposed to use a bloody rook...which is a black bird...but looks like a castle...
Well, technically, it doesn't really look like a castle; more of a tower. And that's the freakish think about them! Towers don't move. But chess just wouldn't be the same if one's castley-towery things couldn't move.
I was once intimidated during a game of badminton. I solved it by cracking my racket over my opponents head. Several times. This had two major consequences for me:
1. It was no longer I who was intimidated by faulty and bias refereeing.
2. I was banned from playing competition badminton, so my new found confidence was pointless.
The moral of the story is, the next time you feel that somebody is intimidated by chess, smash the chess board over your own head. That will show them!
Originally posted by shavixmirlol HA-HA LOL
Dots, commas...Dude!
If people don't even use dots and commas, how on earth are they supposed to use a bloody rook...which is a black bird...but looks like a castle...
Well, technically, it doesn't really look like a castle; more of a tower. And that's the freakish think about them! Towers don't move. But chess just wouldn't be the same if one's cast ...[text shortened]... y is intimidated by chess, smash the chess board over your own head. That will show them!
Originally posted by richfeetIf you're referring to the ways journalists always distance themselves when they report a chess story, you might take a look at Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. I think the phenomena he describes, which he attributes to evangelical religion, offers a lot of insight into the ways folks labor to avoid using their minds.
Why are a lot of people intimidated by chess this response never fails to amuse me and i sse it all the time with folks who dont play!
Originally posted by shavixmirAlways wondered who that was! But I WON that tournament, got a nice little, and I mean Little, trophy. They had to bandage up my head pretty good though.
Dots, commas...Dude!
If people don't even use dots and commas, how on earth are they supposed to use a bloody rook...which is a black bird...but looks like a castle...
Well, technically, it doesn't really look like a castle; more of a tower. And that's the freakish think about them! Towers don't move. But chess just wouldn't be the same if one's cast ...[text shortened]... y is intimidated by chess, smash the chess board over your own head. That will show them!
Adults are often intimidated by chess because it's hard; chess is difficult to learn as an adult.
There's all manner of specific terminology for this or that maneuver (en passant capture, castling, forking, pinning, etc.), tactical theme, strategy, and eight bazillion named openings.
Nor does reading chess books generally elucidate the novice adult. Chess books are written with a logic that is peculiar to chess, and one that is often forbidding to newcomers.
Originally posted by blakbuzzrdYou are right but kids seem to learn it with no problems i was in middle school when i learned how to play. I have never mastered this game and dont think i ever will and thats what i love about chess.
Adults are often intimidated by chess because it's hard; chess is difficult to learn as an adult.
There's all manner of specific terminology for this or that maneuver (en passant capture, castling, forking, pinning, etc.), tactical theme, strategy, and eight bazillion named openings.
Nor does reading chess books generally elucidate the novice adult ...[text shortened]... written with a logic that is peculiar to chess, and one that is often forbidding to newcomers.
Originally posted by shavixmirGlad it wasn't cricket
Dots, commas...Dude!
If people don't even use dots and commas, how on earth are they supposed to use a bloody rook...which is a black bird...but looks like a castle...
Well, technically, it doesn't really look like a castle; more of a tower. And that's the freakish think about them! Towers don't move. But chess just wouldn't be the same if one's cast ...[text shortened]... y is intimidated by chess, smash the chess board over your own head. That will show them!