Friendly Opinion Game (FOG)

I feel they should have bullfighting in the zoos, and serve onions at the concession stand.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I feel they should have bullfighting in the zoos.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
An idle opinion, CP, or do you speak with some level of authority... I mean, do you have a B.S. Degree?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Friendly Opinion Game (FOG)



In my honest opinion, most all games are essentially mind games (professional sports, octagon fighting, horseshoes, high spirited conversation, high stakes poker, chess, etc.). An obvious yet incredibly underrated strategy appears to be the concentrated focus on breaking an opponent's will to fight, by gradually ...[text shortened]... l interest and in good taste is fair game.



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Originally posted by Woodgie
Aren't you describing life in general there?

Let me ask you a million dollar question, if you could leave only one piece of advice to the rest of mankind and it can only contain one point, what would that advice be?

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
No sir, my diploma is quite legitimate I assure you.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby


In my honest opinion, most all games are essentially mind games (professional sports, octagon fighting, horseshoes, high spirited conversation, high stakes poker, chess, etc.). An obvious yet incredibly underrated strategy appears to be the concentrated focus on breaking an opponent's will to fight, by gradually seizing opportunities to increase the l interest and in good taste is fair game.



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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Aren't you describing life in general there?

[b]Yes.


Let me ask you a million dollar question, if you could leave only one piece of advice
to the rest of mankind and it can only contain one point, what would that advice be?


Matter.[/b]

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
A game that is not a mind game must be mindless and so can hardly be called a game. Examples are nonetheless welcome.

I am interested in what you say about breaking opponents down. It doesn't seem a particularly friendly approach. At the very least it requires opponents who are paranoid. The arachnid patience and implicit cruelty are creepy.

Originally posted by Woodgie

Dark or anti?


I am only pulling your leg, I know what you meant.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Agree with your opening sentence. Your second sentence suggests tiddlywinks, spin the bottle or weekly lottery tickets (none of which qualify for various though nebulous reasons). Third sentence seems to convey 'the nature of competition and winning or losing'. You prefer bludgeoning? Fourth intrudes Harvard precious, 'particularly friendly'. Conversati ...[text shortened]... ning with the phrase, "... and implicit cruelty are creepy." You a soldier or a nursemaid?

Originally posted by Woodgie
That's not like you to pull your punches.

Ouch!

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Woodgie, Sir Bosse and I have been almost friends since mid-2008. Believe we

still understand our mutual tolerances and continue to learn from each other.

Originally posted by Woodgie

I was impressed by the way you ripped his reply apart.

Also, with respect to games, you get a pretty good idea of a persons true nature by observing how they play the game.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Absolutely, Woodgie. More than than this world dreams of is wrought by character,

rather than Lord Tennyson's notion of prayer (though prayer may well be second).



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